Lot 74
  • 74

William Baziotes

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • William Baziotes
  • Shadow
  • signed; dated 1959 on the reverse
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 14 3/4 by 18 5/8 in. 37.5 by 47.3 cm.

Provenance

Makler Gallery, Philadelphia
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1974)
Moeller Fine Art, Ltd., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects, September - November 1986
Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, Watercolors of the Abstract Expressionist Era, March - June 1990

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board along the top edge. There are artist's pinholes intermittently along the edges with a very minor associated unobtrusive loss to the sheet at the lower left corner. Framed under Plexiglas.
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