Lot 21
  • 21

Walter Tandy Murch

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Walter Tandy Murch
  • The Uncertainty Principle
  • signed Walter Murch (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 3/4 by 19 1/4 inches
  • (47.7 by 48.9 cm)

Provenance

Gift to the present owner, 1982

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not stretched or mounted. Surface: In generally good condition aside from scattered areas of craquelure and pigment separation and several small losses throughout. UNDER UV: A few possible dots of inpainting; many pigments are still active
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Catalogue Note

This work was illustrated on the cover of the January 1958 issue of Scientific American.