Lot 5
  • 5

Thomas Downing

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Thomas Downing
  • Grid Four Saranac
  • signed, titled and dated May 26-71 on the overlap
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 50 1/2 by 80 1/4 in. 128.2 by 203.8 cm.

Provenance

Louise Downing, Provincetown
Acquired by the present owner from the above circa 1980

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is light wear along the edges and at the corners of the canvas. There are a few scattered pinpoint accretions and evidence of very faint scattered mold in the lower right quadrant, just above the bottom edge, along the top overlap and scattered on the reverse of the work. Marker on the verso is faintly evident from the recto. Unframed.
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