Lot 58
  • 58

George Inness

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • George Inness
  • North Conway
  • signed G Inness (lower right)
  • oil on canvas laid down on board
  • 12 3/8 by 18 1/2 in.
  • 31.5 by 47 cm.
  • Painted circa 1870

Provenance

Estate of the artist (Sold: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 12-14, 1895, lot 55)
Acquired from the above by Frank H. Scott
Sale: Grant's Art Galleries, Chicago, January 26, 1939, lot 167
The University of California, Los Angeles
Sale: Sotheby's, Los Angeles, October 6, 1981, lot 401

Exhibited

Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, 19th Century American Landscape Painting, 1966, no. 29

Literature

Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two, New Brunswick, 2007, p. 470, no. 526, illustrated

Condition

would benefit from a light cleaning. SURFACE: in generally good condition. UNDER ULTRAVIOLET: no apparent inpainting; a dark shadow over signature (shadow looks to be over the varnish).
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