Lot 68
  • 68

GUY CARLETON WIGGINS | The Public Library, New York Winter

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Guy Carleton Wiggins
  • The Public Library, New York Winter
  • signed Guy Wiggins (lower left); also signed again and titled The Public Library/New York Winter (on the reverse) 
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 by 30 1/2 inches
  • (63.5 by 77.5 cm)

Provenance

Joseph Sartor Galleries, Dallas, Texas, circa 1930
Private collection, San Diego, California (sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 26, 1996, lot 167)
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 2003, lot 167)
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale; sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 22, 2013, lot 44)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is frame abrasion at edges and scattered fine surface cracking. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

This work has been authenticated by Guy Arthur Wiggins. A letter of authenticity, dated September 25, 2018, accompanies this lot.