Lot 114
  • 114

Theodore Earl Butler

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Theodore Earl Butler
  • Cliffs
  • signed T.E. Butler and dated '04, l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 32 by 32 in.
  • 81.2 by 81.2 cm.

Provenance

By descent in the family of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1977

 

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in generally good condiiton; craquelure throughout (painted with thick impasto) UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: a few dots/dashes of inpaint--lower right, upper right, left corner (frame abrasion)
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Catalogue Note

Butler painted the present work in Quiberville, France, a resort village on the coast of Normandy during the summer of 1904.

This painting will be included in Patrick Bertrand's forthcoming catalogue raisonnè of the work of Theodore Earl Butler.