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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Zinnias

Auction Closed

November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

1893 - 1967

Zinnias


signed with the artist's monogram CEB and dated 1947-63 (lower right); also titled and dated again (on the reverse)

watercolor on paperboard

paperboard: 33 by 23 inches (83.8 by 58.4 cm)

framed: 38 by 28 inches (96.5 by 71.1 cm)


We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

Susan and David Workman, New York, by 1967
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1974
Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 1287, p. 302
Judith Tannenbaum, “Charles Burchfield at Kennedy,” Arts Magazine 48, May 1974, pp. 72-73
Colleen Lahan Makowski, Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography, Lanham, Maryland, 1996, pp. 79, 148, 179
New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Burchfield·Hopper·Marsh, May-June 1967
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Charles E. Burchfield, Watercolors, March-April 1974, no. 14, n.p., illustrated
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Long Island Collections: A Century of Art, 1880-1980, April-July 1982, no. 5
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects: the Figure and Landscape, 1870s-1980s, September-December 1990, no. 4, pp. 63, 102, illustrated