Lot 62
  • 62

William Holbrook Beard

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • William Holbrook Beard
  • Plundering the Watermelon Patch
  • signed W.H Beard. and dated 1871. (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 17 7/8 by 24 inches
  • (45.4 by 61 cm)

Provenance

Private collection (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 30, 1980, lot 249)
Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980

Exhibited

New York, Alexander Gallery, William Holbrook Beard: Animals in Fantasy, April-May 1981, no. 20, illustrated p. 37 (as Bears in the Watermelon Patch)

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. There is scattered surface cracking and a few possible surface accretions in bear in foreground. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion along left edge, a spot in the sky near left edge, a spot in crops left of center, a dot on bear at far right, a few other scattered pindots.
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