Lot 66
  • 66

Daniel Ridgway Knight

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Daniel Ridgway Knight
  • The First Born (Morning Greeting)
  • signed Ridgway Knight, inscribed Paris, and dated 85 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas

  • 32 1/4 by 25 1/4 in.
  • 81.9 by 64.1 cm

Provenance

Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris
Knoedler & Co., New York (no. 4956, acquired in November 1885) Mrs. J.W. Minturn, New York (in December 1885)
Robert Hoe family
Nathan Heyer (and sold: Parke-Bernet, New York, November 4, 1938, lot 34, illustrated, as Morning Greeting)
Sale: Christie's, New York, October 27, 1983, lot 287, illustrated (as Country Gossip)  
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Condition

Lined, cracking visible - at times in bullseye patterns - as well as paint separation, small chips of loss underneath hands of woman on left and in the top edge of the path beneath the foot of the woman carrying a basket (surrounded by some lifting); under UV: inpainting to address areas of paint separation and cracking around the figures in the darkest pigments.
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