Lot 131
  • 131

Edna Reindel

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Edna Reindel
  • Contemplation
  • signed Edna Reindel and dated 1937 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 32 by 26 inches
  • (81.3 by 66 cm)

Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (sold: Sotheby's Arcade, New York, March 25, 1997, lot 263, cover lot)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Literature

John Baker, Henry Lee McFee and Formalist Realism in American Still Life, 1923 - 1936, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1987, fig. 135, p. 102, illustrated

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: no apparent inpainting
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Catalogue Note

Lot 131 is illustrated as a frontispiece of this catalogue.