Lot 66
  • 66

William Sergeant Kendall

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • William Sergeant Kendall
  • Gloria
  • signed -Sargeant Kendall- and dated 1933 (upper left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 37 by 60 inches
  • (94 by 152.4 cm)

Provenance

Christine Herter, Virginia (wife of the artist)
Private Collection (gift from the above, circa 1959)
Private Collection, Texas
Owen Gallery, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 20, 2009, lot 76
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, and traveling, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Sergeant Kendall, 1939, no. 12
New York, Owen Gallery, William Sergeant Kendall: American Master, 1998, no. 5, illustrated

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition aside from a network of vertical craquelure in areas of heavier impasto and a 3 inch scratch on her torso. UNDER UV: A small dots, dashes, and areas of inpainting, mostly on her legs, arms, torso and face; there is craquelure fill in the green blanket to the right of the figure.
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