Lot 28
  • 28

Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848-1933

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Louis Comfort Tiffany
  • Italian Landscape
  • signed Louis C. Tiffany, l.l.
  • oil on canvas laid down on board
  • 21 1/4 by 16 1/4 in.
  • 54 by 41.3 cm.

Provenance

(Sale:  Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 20, 1969, lot 71)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibited

Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Inaugural Exhibition, October, 1974-September, 1975
New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Louis Comfort Tiffany:  The Paintings, 1979, no. 23

Literature

Abram Lerner, et al., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, n0. 69, illus. p. 57

Condition

SURFACE: in generally good condition; surface has been compressed (one can see canvas weave in many places), but there is good pigment retention UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: scattered spots of inpaint at center in sky
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