Lot 11
  • 11

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Charles Ephraim Burchfield
  • High Noon
  • signed Chas Burchfield and dated 1916 (lower right); inscribed Summer 1915 (verso)
  • watercolor over traces of pencil on paper
  • 20 by 13 7/8 inches
  • (50.8 by 35.3 cm)

Provenance

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Southern Bell Corporation, Houston
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005

Exhibited

San Antonio Museum of Art, The Age of Innocence: American Impressionism and its Influence, 1996
Fayette, Missouri, Central Methodist College, The Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art, American Images: The SBC Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art, 1999

Condition

Watercolor over traces of pencil on paper, hinged by two pieces of white cloth tape at upper corners. In generally good condition aside from a few small losses and tears at extreme edges (all less than 1/8 inch), repaired losses to the lower right and left corners, and some surface dirt visible in upper right corner. Work presents nicely and the colors are bright and vibrant.
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