Lot 124
  • 124

WALTER MACEWEN | Woman of the Empire

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Walter MacEwen
  • Woman of the Empire
  • signed McEwen. (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 74 by 33 1/2 inches
  • (188 by 95.1 cm)
  • Painted circa 1902.

Provenance

Mrs. Charles J. Singer, Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1902 (gift from the above) 
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1949

Exhibited

Paris, France, Salon, 1902
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, October-December 1902, no. 378, p. 44

Condition

The canvas has been lined with a piece of board or Masonite. There is frame abrasion at edges and surface cracking throughout. Under UV: there are a few dots and spots of inpainting below her left hand, a dot at top left edge below chandelier, a few dots in lower left corner. There are a few lines of inpainting to address cracking, mainly in her reflection, a few areas of inpainting in the reflection of her arm. There are a few other scattered dots and spots.
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