Lot 132
  • 132

Theodore Earl Butler

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Theodore Earl Butler
  • Valley at Giverny, The Old Mill
  • signed Theodore Butler and dated 1903, l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 26 by 32 in.
  • 66 by 81.3 cm.

Provenance

Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles
Tom Snyder Collection
R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago

Exhibited

Chicago, R.H. Love Galleries, Inc.; The Fine Arts Museum of the South at Mobile; Wilkes-Barr, Pennsylvania, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College; Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art; Laramie, University of Wyoming Art Museum; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri, Theodore Earl Butler:  Emergence from Monet's Shadow, no. 14, 1984-1986
New York, The Union League Club; Chicago, R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Theodore Earl Butler:  Emergence from Monet's Shadow, 1996, no. 7

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition, generally; scattered craquelure throughout (with mild stretcher marks) UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: scattered craquelure along the edges, particularly the upper edge and the upper half of the left edge; a series of 'spots' along the low horizon line in the foreground (they touch the bases of the trees that line-up along the left side of the painting and go as far as the house and barn)
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