Lot 264
  • 264

ALFRED JENSEN | Heaven, Earth

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Jensen
  • Heaven, Earth
  • each signed, titled and dated 76 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas, in 2 parts 
  • each: 40 by 52 in. 101.6 by 138.1 cm.
  • overall: 40 by 104 1/2 in. 101.6 by 265.4 cm.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in April 1980

Exhibited

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Newport Harbor Art Museum; The Oakland Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum; Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas; Champaign, Krannert Museum, American Painting of the 1970s, December 1978 - January 1980, p. 33, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The areas of impasto are stable and intact. There are a few very minor areas of hairline craquelure scattered throughout the work especially in the blue squares. There is a small brown accretion in Heaven immediately to the right of the Y in Year and a slightly larger brown accretion to the right of the C in Count. The colors are bright and fresh. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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