Lot 12
  • 12

Charles Sprague Pearce

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Sprague Pearce
  • Lunch Break in the Fields
  • signed CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE and inscribed AUVERS SUR OISE (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 1/4 by 43 in.
  • 76.8 by 109.2 cm

Provenance

Private Collection

Exhibited

New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, A Rare Elegance: The Paintings of Charles Sprague Pearce, October 22 - December 4, 1993, no. 22

Condition

This painting has been lined. Under UV, inpainting around the perimeter, likely to address frame abrasion, fluoresces, as do dots and dashes in the far background, and in a spot in the central sitter's forehead.
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