Lot 26
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CARROLL CLOAR | Blood of the Maguey

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Carroll Cloar
  • Blood of the Maguey
  • signed Carroll Cloar (lower left) 
  • tempera on board
  • 20 1/4 by 26 inches
  • (51.4 by 66 cm)
  • Painted in 1952.

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
Sold: Leslie Hindman, Denver, Colorado, November 12, 2012, lot 311
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale 

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, November 1952-January 1953

Literature

Guy Northrop, Hostile Butterflies and Other Paintings by Carroll Cloar, Memphis, Tennessee, 1977, no. 23, p. 160

Condition

There are a few scattered surface accretions and a 10 inch thin diagonal scratch at center. There is some minor frame abrasion at the bottom and right edges. There is fine craquelure at the bottom right and by the staircase. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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