Lot 201
  • 201

Walter Stuempfig

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Walter Stuempfig
  • Factory District
  • signed Stuempfig (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 34 by 40 1/2 inches
  • (86.4 by 102.9 cm)
  • Painted in 1947.

Provenance

Durlacher Brothers, New York
Mrs. Vincent Astor, New York
Mrs. James Fosburgh, New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981

Exhibited

Philadelphia, The Woodmere Art Gallery; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Walter Stuempfig Memorial Exhibition, 1972, no. 26, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from faint craquelure throughout and stretcher marks along left and bottom edges. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting, there is an uneven varnish applied to the surface which is visible under UV light.
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