Lot 107
  • 107

George Wesley Bellows 1882 - 1925

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • George Wesley Bellows
  • Approach of Rain
  • signed Geo Bellows (lower left); also signed Geo Bellows, titled Approach of Rain and dated 1913 on the reverse
  • oil on panel
  • 13 1/4 by 19 1/2 inches
  • (33.7 by 49.5 cm)

Provenance

Estate of Emma S. Bellows (the artist's wife), 1959
H.V. Allison & Co., New York
Herbert A. Goldstone, New York, 1961
H.V. Allison & Co., New York
Terrance H. Geaghan, Shipmasters Gallery, Bath, Maine
Private Collection, Maine, 1996 (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Massachusetts (by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 2003, lot 41, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, H.V. Allison & Co., George Bellows, November-December 1947
Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art, June-September 1965, no. 4, p. 9, illustrated 
Vienna, Austria, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, America: The New World in 19th Century Painting, March-June 1999, no. 145, illustrated p. 190

Literature

The artist's record book A, p. 260
Emma S. Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows, New York, 1929, no. 40, illustrated
Mary Sayre Haverstock, George Bellows An Artist in Action, New York, 2007, p. 90

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Under UV: there is 1 small dot and a few scattered pindots of inpainting in the upper left sky.
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