Lot 8
  • 8

Alexander Pope

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Pope
  • After the Hunt
  • signed Alexander Pope, Boston, Mass. USA, c.l.

  • oil on canvas
  • 51 1/2 by 41 1/4 in.
  • 130.8 by 104.8 cm.

Provenance

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1982

Exhibited

Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, Spectacle of Realism: An Exhibition of 19th Century European and American Paintings, 1970, no. 46
Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Museum of Art; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, October 1974-April 1975
Nagoya City, Japan, Nagoya City Art Museum; Tokyo, Japan, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Krobe, Japan, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Visual Deception, April-November 2009

Literature

Portraits of Objects: Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection, Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science, 1984, no. 37, illustrated in color

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: canvas has been compressed and stiffened from relining, but retention of colors, details and pigment is good; canvas is loose on stretcher and buckles in several places UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: substantial restoration (approx. 70% of surface appears to be restored) there appear to be a series of repaired tears at the upper third of the picture which encompass the entire width of the work
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