Lot 61
  • 61

Ralston Crawford 1906 - 1978

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Ralston Crawford
  • Havana Harbor #3
  • signed RALSTON CRAWFORD and dated © 1948 (lower left); also signed RALSTON CRAWFORD, titled HAVANA HARBOR #3, and dated 1948 on the stretcher, with the artist's estate stamp on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 1/4 by 30 3/8 inches
  • (92 by 77.1 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1978
Lee Nordness Galleries, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, by 1991
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, Ralston Crawford, February-March 1958, no. 24
Omaha, Nebraska, Creighton University Fine Art Gallery, Ralston Crawford: Retrospective Exhibition, October-December 1968, no. 2
Cincinnati, Ohio, The Contemporary Art Center, Ralston Crawford, 1971
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Ralston Crawford, 1983, no. 16
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Ralston Crawford and the Sea, March-April 1991, no. 46

Literature

Richard B. Freeman, Ralston Crawford, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1953, no. 48.3, p. 45

Condition

This work is in good condition. The canvas is lined. Under UV: There are a few pindots of inpainting primarily in the upper left background and a few thin lines of inpainting in the gray area at the center. There is inpainting at the edges to allow for the current float presentation.
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