Lot 67
  • 67

JOHN GEORGE BROWN | Sympathy

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • John George Brown
  • Sympathy
  • signed J.G. Brown N.A. and dated 1885. (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 1/4 by 20 inches
  • (63.5 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, October 16, 1974, lot 89
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
By descent (sold: Christie's, New York, December 5, 2013, lot 162)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Condition

The canvas is unlined and there is frame abrasion at edges.Under UV: there is a dot of inpainting the left shoulder of boy on right and a dot at the center bottom edge.
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