Lot 122
  • 122

GEORGE INNESS | The Oaks, Durham

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • George Inness
  • The Oaks, Durham
  • signed G. Inness (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 1/2 by 39 3/4 inches
  • (69.9 by 75.6 cm)
  • Painted circa 1862.

Provenance

(probably) George W. Hill, Brooklyn, New York (acquired from the aritst) 
Arthur Turnbull Hill (by descent)
George H. Ainslie Galleries, New York, 1920
Howard Young Galleries, New York
Metropolitan Galleries, New York
Henry A. Auerbach
Private collection, Westport, Connecticut (his grandson)
By descent to the present owner (his daughter) 

Literature

"A Fine Inness Landscape," American Art News, vol. 19, no. 8, December 4, 1920
"Review of Exhibitions; Early and Late Inness Canvases," American Art News, vol. 20, no. 22, March 11, 1922
Leroy Ireland, Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Austin, Texas, 1965, no. 891, p. 222, illustrated 
Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, vol. 1, no. 196, p. 223, illustrated

Condition

The canvas is wax lined and the edges are trimmed. There is surface cracking throughout and frame abrasion at edges. Under UV: there are spots and dots of inpainting in the tree at center, a few dots in the sky, an area at the center left edge and a few other scattered dots of inpainting.
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