Lot 74
  • 74

Ben Norris

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Ben Norris
  • L.A. Industrial with Gas Tanks
  • signed Ben Norris and dated 1935 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 1/8 by 24 inches
  • (51.1 by 60.1 cm)

Provenance

Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2005

Literature

Ben Norris, Ben Norris: American Modernist, 1910-2006, An Autobiography, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009, p. 62, illustrated 

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is craquelure in the black pigments. Under UV: there are a few dots of inpainting primarily along the bottom edge and a thin line in the brown tower.
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