Lot 23
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STEVE WHEELER | Decoy for Dog

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Steve Wheeler
  • Decoy for Dog
  • signed Wheeler (lower left)
  • tempera on paper mounted on board by the artist
  • 25 5/8 by 19 5/8 inches
  • (65.1 by 49.9 cm)
  • Executed circa 1943.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Richard York Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001

Exhibited

New York, Snyder Fine Art, 1993
New York, Snyder Fine Art, Steve Wheeler: Selected Works and the Artist's Library, 1996
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Steve Wheeler: The Oracle Visiting the 20th Century, 1997-98, no. 24, pp. 33, 46, illustrated
New York, Richard York Gallery, Steve Wheeler: Artist and Visionary, September-October 1999, no. 22, p. 14, illustrated 

Condition

There are scattered spots of surface staining and some areas of very fine surface cracking in white areas of thicker impasto.
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