Lot 27
  • 27

ERNEST FIENE | Yard Engine

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Ernest Fiene
  • Yard Engine
  • signed E. Fiene- (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 34 inches
  • (61 by 86.4 cm)

Provenance

The artist
Edward Levy, New York
D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
Private collection, New York

Exhibited

New York, Association of American Artists, Ernest Fiene, 1936
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, First National Bank, The Industrial Scene, October 1937
Paris, France, Musée du Jeu de Paume, May-July 1938, no. 58, p. 38

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There is frame abrasion at edges and there are stretcher bar marks at the left and right edges. There is surface cracking and the work appears to be slightly dirty. There is a patch on reverse near center right edge. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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