Lot 6
  • 6

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • Early Morning Sunlight
  • signed Ch Burchfield and dated June 1915- (lower left)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard
  • 14 by 20 inches
  • (35.6 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Family of the artist (sold: Sotheby's, New York, June 2, 1983, lot 212)
Richard York Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
David Settles Gallery, Houston
Private Collection, New Jersey
Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York
Jean Efron Art Consultants, Washington, DC, 2005
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Charles Burchfield:  Early Watercolors, 1963, no. 2, p. 17
Ohio State Fair, Charles Burchfield Memorial Exhibition, 1970

Literature

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield:  Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, no. 15, p. 32

Condition

Watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard. In generally good condition aside from faint light stain, creases and very small tears to extreme edges, and scattered small pindots of loss (most noticeable in darks at lower right). Colors are bright.
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