Lot 3
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Elihu Vedder 1836 - 1923

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Elihu Vedder
  • The Heart of the Rose
  • signed Elihu Vedder (lower right), dated 1891-2 (lower center) and inscribed Rome (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 13 by 13 inches
  • (33 by 33 cm)

Provenance

Private Collection, Litchfield, Connecticut
Vose Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979 (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Burlingame, California, 1980 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's New York, May 28, 1987, lot 118, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, American Beauty: The Rose in American Art, May-July 1997, no. 44, p. 111, illustrated p. 101, illustrated on the inside back cover

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. The canvas is unlined. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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