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JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER | INDIAN WITH CAMPFIRE BELOW
Auction Closed
June 26, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private California Collection
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LEYENDECKER
1874 - 1951
INDIAN WITH CAMPFIRE BELOW
signed with monogrammed initials JLC (lower left)
oil on canvas
26 ⅛ by 18 ½ inches
(66.4 by 47 cm)
Painted in 1923.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009
The Saturday Evening Post, March 17, 1923, cover illustration (© SEPS licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.)
Jan Cohn, Covers of "The Saturday Evening Post:" Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, illustrated p. 106
Laurence Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, illustrated pp. 138, 139