Lot 158
  • 158

William Louis Sonntag

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • William Louis Sonntag
  • Bringing in the Hay
  • signed Sonntag (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 1/2 by 36 3/8 inches
  • (69.9 by 92.4 cm)

Provenance

Knoedler-Modarco, S.A., New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above, 1981)
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992

Exhibited

Hickory, North Carolina, Hickory Museum of Art, Through Artist’s Eyes: 19th Century American Selections from the Masco Collection, 1993

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from faint minor craquelure, visible inpainting at upper left, and a few small losses at lower center. UNDER UV: Inpainting throughout sky (approximately 1/3 of overall surface) and scattered dots and dashes of inpainting in foreground.
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