Lot 85
  • 85

Oliver Dennett Grover 1861 - 1927

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Oliver Dennett Grover
  • Wedding Day at the Rialto Bridge, Venice
  • signed Oliver Dennett Grover, l.l., signed Oliver Dennett Grover and dated 1905, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 30 in.
  • 61 by 76.2 cm.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the original owner
Leonard Stark, Chicago
Harriman-Judd Collection, Los Angeles
Charles B. Tyler, Los Angeles"
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Venice, Cini Foundation, 1997

Condition

The canvas is lined. SURFACE: Minor craquelure visible in the sky. Thins areas in the buildings and figures at right, the paving stones at right, and the gondola in the left foreground. UNDER UV: Inpainting: at the edges particularly along top and bottom and in the upper corners, scattered spots in the sky (particularly around the second mooring pole from the left), in the two poles at left, scattered spots in the water mostly around the gondola, on the gondola's cab, a few spots on the pavement at lower center.
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