Lot 84
  • 84

Walter Launt Palmer 1854-1932

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Walter Launt Palmer
  • Tasseled Larch and Feathered Fir
  • signed W.L. Palmer, l.l., and inscribed Tasseled Larch and Feathered Fir on two labels affixed to the reverse of the frame
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 by 28 1/4 in.
  • (53.3 by 71.7 cm)

Provenance

Private collection, circa 1909 (acquired from the artist)
By descent in the family to the present owner

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, 1909, no. 5

Literature

Maybelle Mann, Walter Launt Palmer: Poetic Reality, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 1984, p. 135

Condition

Good condition; unlined; some craquelure, canvas buckles slightly, some isolated areas of lifting and a few small losses, primarily in center and right edge, under UV: fine.
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