American Art
American Art
THOMAS MAITLAND CLELAND | RED SPY HUNT
Auction Closed
November 19, 04:22 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THOMAS MAITLAND CLELAND
1880 - 1964
RED SPY HUNT
signed TM Cleland and dated 1949 (lower right); also inscribed With affectionate regard to Joe & Lenore Cotten,/January 9, 1951/TM Cleland (on an original label affixed to the reverse)
oil on Masonite
17 ½ by 26 inches
(44.5 by 66 cm)
The artist
Joseph and Lenore Cotten, Los Angeles, California, 1951 (gift from the above)
Edenhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1990
The present work was gifted by Thomas Maitland Cleland to the American actor Joseph Cotten and his wife, Lenore. Cotten gained international recognition for his performances in three films by Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943). He was one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s and starred in several notable film classics such as Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), William Dieterle’s Love Letters (1945) and Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949).