Lot 34
  • 34

Gary Thomas Erbe b.1944

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Gary Thomas Erbe
  • Cheap Music
  • signed G Erbe and dated 81 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 23 by 33 inches
  • (58.4 by 83.8 cm)

Provenance

Alexander Gallery, New York
Private Collection, 1981 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1992

Exhibited

Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Gary Erbe: An Exhibition of Trompe L’Oeil, June-September 1983
Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Sordoni Art Gallery; New York, Alexander Gallery, Gary Erbe: An American Tradition Continues, June-September 1985
New Britain, Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art; Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art; Doylestown, Pennsylvania, James A. Michener Art Museum; Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Gary T. Erbe25 Years in Retrospect, January-December 1995
Springfield, Missouri, Springfield Art Museum, Gary T. Erbe–Paintings, September-November 1999, no. 30
New York, National Arts Club, Gary Erbe: Beneath the Surface: Paintings Collages and Drawings, May 2000

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is frame abrasion at the edges. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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