Lot 118
  • 118

JOHN GEORGE BROWN | A Story of the Sea

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • A Story of the Sea
  • signed J.G. Brown and dated 1883 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 by 30 inches
  • (63.5 by 76.2 cm)

Provenance

The artist
Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, June 2, 1983, lot 62)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson (sold: Christie's, New York, January 28, 1995, lot 831) 

Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, Annual Exhibition, 1883, no. 258

Literature

"Fine Arts," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 22, 1883, p. 1
"Sales at the Academy," The Studio, April 14, 1883, p. 132
"Fine Arts," Mail and Express, April 17, 1883, p. 3
"Fine Arts," The Nation, vol. 36, April 19, 1883, no. 929, pp. 848-49
"The Academy of Design," The New York Times, April 15, 1883, p. 3
"Sales of Pictures at the National Academy of Design," The New York Times, April 15, 1883, p. 12
"The Academy Exhibition," The Art Amateur, vol. VIII. no. 6, May 1883, pp. 126-28
"The Academy Exhibition," The New York Daily Tribune, May 12, 1883, p. 2
"The Academy Exhibition," The New York Evening Post, April 19, 1883, p. 4
Martha Hoppin, The World of J.G. Brown, Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 2010, p. 211

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. There is frame abrasion at edges and there is fine surface cracking in the upper right quadrant. Under UV: there are two spots of inpainting near the upper right corner and a few thin lines of inpainting to address cracking in this area. There are a few dots of inpainting along the lower edge. Other pigments fluoresce but appear to be original.
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