Frederick Carl Frieseke

Estate of Vera Ruth Miller (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 20, 1979, lot 70)
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York
Prentice B. Tomlinson, Jr., Texas
Acquired by the present owner, 1983

Traverse City, Michigan, The Dennos Museum Center; East Lansing, Michigan, Kresge Art Museum; Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Museum; Battle Creek, Michigan, Art Center of Battle Creek; Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Midland, Michigan, Arts Midland: Galleries & School of the Midland Center for the Arts; Marquette, Michigan, Northern Michigan University Art Museum; Port Huron, Michigan, Port Huron Museum, Little Gems of American Painting from the Manoogian Collection, June 1996-January 1998

There is frame abrasion at edges and surface cracking most visible in the umbrella.The work appears to be slightly dirty and there is a small nick in the panel at lower right corner. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion, a small area at upper right corner and a small dash of inpainting in the sand to the right of the woman's chair.
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The present work was painted on the island of Corsica, where Frieseke and his wife resided from December 1912 through the spring of 1913. 

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Frieseke's work being complied by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, and sponsored by Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York.