Lot 125
  • 125

Eugene Edward Speicher

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Eugene Edward Speicher
  • Tulips and Spirea
  • signed Eugene Speicher (lower left); titled Tulips and Spirea (on the stretcher)
  • oil on canvas
  • 22 3/8 by 17 1/4 inches
  • (56.8 by 43.8 cm)

Provenance

Charles Williams, Cincinnati (and sold: Doyle, New York, May 22, 2007, lot 1276A)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New Paltz, State University of New York, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Along His Own Lines:  A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher, 2014, plate 25, illustrated

Literature

Eugene E. Speicher, Eugene E. Speicher, New York, 1945, n.p., illustrated

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Canvas is backed under the stretcher by a piece of brown paper, probably original to the work. Surface: In good condition. Colors are bright. UNDER UV: A few scattered lines of inpainting above the signature and has been selectively cleaned in the lighter areas with the background left under the varnish.
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