Lot 53
  • 53

Charles Green Shaw

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Green Shaw
  • Abstract Form I
  • signed Shaw and dated December/1935 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 41 3/4 by 30 inches
  • (106.1 by 76.2 cm)

Provenance

Private collection, Midwest
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York

Exhibited

New York, Richard York Gallery, Charles G. Shaw: Abstractions of the Thirties, May 1987, no. 5
New York, Snyder Fine Art, Modern American Artists in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, March-May 1997

Condition

This work is in good condition. The canvas is strip lined. There is some paint separation in the black areas. Under UV: there are some scattered spots of inpainting in the pale blue areas and a 1x2 inch area of in the background at upper left that is partially visible to the naked eye. There is inpainting to frame abrasion at the edges.
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