Lot 56
  • 56

Sanford Robinson Gifford 1823 - 1880

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Sanford Robinson Gifford
  • Carriage on a Country Road
  • signed S.R. Gifford and dated 63 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 6 3/4 by 12 inches
  • (17.1 by 30.5 cm)

Provenance

Sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 28, 1976, lot 71, illustrated (as Country Road)
Questroyal Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is lined. There is frame abrasion at edges. Under UV: there is inpainting along the underside of the cloud at center, and some other scattered pindots of inpainting in the sky. There is retouching to frame abrasion at the far top edge.
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