Lot 118
  • 118

Burgoyne Diller

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Burgoyne Diller
  • Early Geometric
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 by 42 in. 91.4 by 106.7 in.
  • Executed circa 1942.

Provenance

Meredith Long & Company, Houston
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Burgoyne Diller, September - November 1990, fig.101, p. 88, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The canvas is unlined and the edges are taped. The canvas is slightly slack on the stretcher and there is minor buckling at the top 2 corners. There is a very faint impression of the stretcher near the edges visible under raking light. There is scattered hairline craquelure evident throughout with some associated lifting of the pigment. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there are several areas of inpainting throughout. Framed under glass.
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