Lot 70
  • 70

Camelia Whitehurst

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Camelia Whitehurst
  • Joan and John
  • signed Camelia Whitehurst (upper right); numbered 31 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 40 1/8 by 30 1/4 inches
  • (101.9 by 76.8 cm)

Provenance

By descent in the family of the artist to the present owner

Exhibited

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, Society of Washington Artists, 43rd Annual Exhibition, January 20 - February 11, 1934 (possibly)

Condition

In estate condition, slightly loose on stretcher bars with undulations, a scuff at lower-middle left, a tear at upper-middle right, to right of girls head. Under ultraviolet light: a fine uniform speckling likely the result of the ground showing through, no apparent inpainting.
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