Lot 12
  • 12

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Cherry Tree in May
  • signed C. E. BURCHFIELD- and dated 1916 (lower right); dated May 1916 (verso)
  • watercolor over pencil on paper
  • 14 by 10 inches
  • (35.6 by 25.4 cm)

Provenance

Charles E. Burchfield Foundation
Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1986
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield, 1984

Literature

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 80, p. 42

Condition

Watercolor over pencil on paper; work in hinged by two pieces of white cloth tape at upper edge. Work is in generally good condition aside from a loss to the lower right corner and a few losses to the upper left edge (under the mat).
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