Lot 75
  • 75

Emil Bisttram 1905-1976

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Emil Bisttram
  • Space Angel
  • signed BISTTRAM and with the artist's device and dated 1964, l.r.

  • acrylic on canvas
  • 48 by 36 in.
  • 121.9 by 91.4 cm.

Provenance

Bisttram Studio Galleries, Taos
Munson Gallery, Santa Fe
Roynel and Walt Wiggins Collection
Clark - Wiggins Fine Art, Ltd.
Private Collection, Dodge City, Kansas
(Sale:  Butterfields, San Francisco, November 7, 1990, lot 3862)

Literature

Walt Wiggins, The Transcendental Art of Emil Bisttram, 1988, Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, pps. 72 and 88, illustrated

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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Catalogue Note

A copy of Walt Wiggins' book on the artist, The Transcendental Art of Emil Bisttram accompanies the lot.