Lot 30
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WALT KUHN | Sap Bucket and Apples

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Walt Kuhn
  • Sap Bucket and Apples
  • signed Walt Kuhn and dated 1947 (lower right); also titled "Sap Bucket and Apples" and dated 1947 (along the upper margin)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 40 inches
  • (76.2 by 101.6 cm)

Provenance

Brenda Kuhn (the artist's daughter)
Estate of the above
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private collection (acquired from the above, 1967; sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 24, 2008, lot 41)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Walt Kuhn, 1877-1949, 1967, no. 46, illustrated 

Literature

Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, no. 522, p. 227, illustrated pl. 128

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is fine surface cracking in several apples and a few dots of possible surface accretion in the background of upper right quadrant. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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