Lot 5
  • 5

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Winter Sun
  • signed with the artist's device and dated 1961 (lower right)
  • watercolor, gouache, charcoal and pastel on paper laid down on paperboard
  • 17 1/4 by 13 7/8 inches
  • (43.8 by 35.3 cm)

Provenance

Charles Rand Penney, Lockport, New York
Goodman Gallery, New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 1989, lot 206)
Harbor Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Lockport, New York, The Kenan Center, Burchfield: The Charles R. Penney Collection of Works by Charles Burchfield, 1966
Lockport, New York, The Kenan Center, Charles R. Penney Exhibits Artists in his Collection form the Counties of Niagara and Erie, 1971
Buffalo, New York, Buffalo State University College, Charles Burchfield Center, Christmas Trees and Snow Scenes, 1973 - 1974
Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery (and travelling), Charles Burchfield: The Charles Rand Penney Collection, 1978 - 1983

Literature

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 1250, p. 292
Charles Rand Penney Collection Catalog, pp. 23, 72

Condition

Watercolor, gouache, charcoal and pastel on paper, the sheet is laid down to a paperboard backing. The work is in generally good condition aside from a few repaired tears and creases along the left edge at center, a few scattered pindots of foxing, and a vertical cut to the sheet 3 inches from the right edge which extend the length of the sheet.
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Catalogue Note

Lot 5 is illustrated as the back cover of this catalogue.