Lot 120
  • 120

Eanger Irving Couse

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Eanger Irving Couse
  • Pueblo Fireplace
  • signed E-I- COUSE- (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 by 24 inches
  • (50.8 by 61 cm)
  • Painted circa 1920-22.

Provenance

Mr. McDade, Grand Canyon, Arizona
J.R. Watkins Co., Winona, Minnesota 
Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2000

Exhibited

Grand Canyon, Arizona, El Tovar Hotel, 1935

Condition

The canvas is strip-lined. There is frame abrasion with a few associated losses at edges. There is surface cracking and the work appears to be slightly dirty. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion, a thin line in the crease of figure's left arm, and a few scattered spots in the fireplace.
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