Lot 37
  • 37

Alvan T. Fisher

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Alvan T. Fisher
  • Sunlit Cove in Early Spring
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 1/4 by 36 in.
  • 69.3 by 91.4 cm.

Provenance

Vose Galleries, Boston

Condition

Canvas is lined (wax-lining). SURFACE: in good condition, generally; surface is compressed from relining (flattened craquelure throughout); while there is good retention of detail and color on right side of work, the darks at left are sunk UNDER ULTRAVIOLET: scattered inpainting throughout darker foreground, with craquelure fill-in; a repaired tear, about 10 in. long, beginning in sky and ending at base of sunlit tree; dots and dashes of inpainting in sky and water; dense patch of inpainting in rocks at center.
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