Lot 23
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Reginald Marsh

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Reginald Marsh
  • Skyscrapers
  • signed Marsh and dated 1931 and Sept. 7, 1931 (lower right)
  • watercolor over pencil on paper
  • 14 by 20 inches
  • (35.5 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fillin, New York (sold: Christie's, New York, September 26, 1991, lot 272)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Museum of the City of New York, A City Standing Up, 1937
Art Institute of Chicago, Eighteenth International Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes, 1939
New York, Davis Galleries, A Family Collection, 1959
Stony Brook, New York, Suffolk Museum and Carriage House; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum of Natural History and Art; Green Bay, Wisconsin, Neville Public Museum and traveling, Fillin Family Collection, 1964-1965, no. 32, illustrated
Hempstead, New York, Hofstra University Library, W.P.A., The Writers Project, 1978
Hempstead, New York, Emily Lowe Gallery, 1935:  The Year & the Arts, 1985

Condition

Watercolor over pencil on paper. In generally good condition aside from faint mat stains(noticeable along the upper left edge); colors are fresh and vibrant; hinged with white linen tape at upper corners, verso. Verso: old brown paper tape remnants along edges
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