Lot 19
  • 19

Walter Shirlaw

Estimate
700 - 900 USD
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Description

  • Walter Shirlaw
  • Self-Portrait
  • signed W Shirlaw lower left
  • gouache en grisaille on paper
  • sight: 4 5/8 by 3 1/2 in.
  • 11 by 8 cm
Together with WILLIAM HART, Landscape with Stream, gray ink wash heightened with white on paper. 2 works.

Provenance

Shirlaw: Jeffrey R. Brown Fine Arts, North Amherst
Paul Magriel, New York
Hart: Alexander Gallery, Inc., New York
Graham Galleries, New York
Paul Magriel, New York

Exhibited

Shirlaw: New York, National Academy of Design; The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, American Figure Drawings: The Paul Magriel Collection, November 8, 1979-March 10, 1980, no. 37, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Neither work was examined out of frame. SHIRLAW: In generally good condition; a few tiny losses in the background at right and upper center. HART: In generally good condition.
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