Lot 95
  • 95

Hermann Dudley Murphy

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Hermann Dudley Murphy
  • Iris
  • signed H. Dudley Murphy (lower right); signed H. Dudley Murphy, dated 1929 and titled Iris (on the reverse); titled Iris (on the stretcher bar)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 25 inches
  • (76.2 by 63.5 cm)

Provenance

Private Collection, Georgia (acquired in 1939)
By descent in the family of the above to the present owner

Condition

Surface generally in good, original, condition, aside from fine craquelure throughout. Under ultraviolet light: an uneven varnish; visible petimenti of larger bowl at center, visible with the unaided eye; no apparent inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

Framed in a period Feliciano Nemiccolo carved frame.