Lot 138
  • 138

PHILIP EVERGOOD | The Glutton

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Philip Evergood
  • The Glutton
  • signed Evergood (lower right) and dated 1960 twice (lower left); also signed again and titled The Glutton (on the reverse) 
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 25 inches
  • (76.2 by 63.5 cm)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph James Akston, West Palm Beach, Florida
By descent to the present owner 

Exhibited

West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, Philip Evergood: A Retrospective, January-March 1976
Lewsiburg, Pennsylvania, Bucknell University, Philip Evergood: Never Separate from the Heart, 1987

Condition

The canvas is unlined and there is frame abrasion at edges. There is surface cracking in the areas of thicker impasto and there is a divot with corresponding patch on the reverse above the watermelon at left. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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