Lot 30
  • 30

Ernest Martin Hennings

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Ernest Martin Hennings
  • Untitled (Portrait of Frank Samora)
  • signed E.M. Hennings (lower left)
  • oil on canvasboard 
  • 14 1/8 by 14 1/8 inches
  • (35.9 by 35.9 cm)
  • Painted circa 1924.

Provenance

Private collection, Dallas, Texas, circa 1920-30
By descent to the present owner

Condition

There is minor frame abrasion at the edges. There is a small dot of paint loss at the center of the top edge associated with frame abrasion and a speck of paint loss in the leaves above the figure's head. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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