Two Centuries: American Art
Two Centuries: American Art
Thomas Eakins
Portrait Sketch of Edward Boulton
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March 3, 05:52 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
Thomas Eakins
1844 - 1916
Portrait Sketch of Edward Boulton
oil on canvas
canvas: 10 ⅜ by 14 ⅜ inches (26.4 by 36.5 cm)
framed: 14 ½ by 19 ½ inches (36.8 by 49.5 cm)
Painted in 1887-88.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Raphael Soyer, New York
Estate of the above
Rebecca L. Soyer, by 1992 (by descent)
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999
Raphael Soyer, New York
Estate of the above
Rebecca L. Soyer, by 1992 (by descent)
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, p. 187
William Innes Homer, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art, New York, 1992, pp. 202, 205, pl. 192, illustrated
William Innes Homer, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art, New York, 1992, pp. 202, 205, pl. 192, illustrated
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, n.d.
The present work is a study for Thomas Eakin's masterwork Cowboys in the Badlands from 1888. Produced upon the artist's return to Pennsylvania in 1887, the present work is among a series of oil sketches the artist executed at Crowell Farm in Avondale. It depicts details of the farm's horse stables and the head of one of the riders seen in the final composition, posed by his student Edward Boulton.