Lot 53
  • 53

Theodore Robinson

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Theodore Robinson
  • Barnyard with Ducks
  • signed Th Robinson (lower left)
  • oil on canvas laid down on cardboard
  • 14 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches
  • (36.8 by 44.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1885.

Provenance

Hamline Robinson
Frank Oakes, Brookline, Massachusetts 
Sale: Christie's New York, May 22, 1991, lot 251A
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Brooklyn Museum, Paintings by American Impressionists and other Artists of the Period, 1880-1900, January - February, 1932, no. 77

Literature

J.I.H. Baur, Theodore Robinson, Brooklyn, 1946, no. 14, p. 58

Condition

SURFACE: In generally good condition; craquelure overall; crackling with minor cupping to the upper edge and sky. UNDER UV: No signs of inpainting.
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