Lot 191
  • 191

Roger Medearis

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Roger Medearis
  • Breaking Ground at Bethel
  • signed Roger Medearis, titled Breaking Ground at Bethel and dated 1940 on the reverse

  • egg tempera and oil on board
  • 20 3/8 by 27 1/2 in.
  • 51.5 by 69.7 cm.

Provenance

Associate American Artist, New York

Exhibited

Saint Joseph, Missouri, Under the Influence:  The Students of Thomas Hart Benton, 1993

Condition

SURFACE: in good condition; some craquelure at left (around the torsos of the pair of men at extreme left--on holding bible, the other a hoe); surface could use a mild cleaning--it is somewhat soiled UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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