Modern Day Auction

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Sunday Morning at Eleven O’Clock

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

1893 - 1967

Sunday Morning at Eleven O’Clock

signed C Burchfield and dated 1917 (lower right); titled and dated June 23, 1917 (on the reverse)

watercolor on paper

21 ¾ by 17 ¾ in.

55.2 by 45.1 cm.

Executed on 23 June 1917.

Frank K.M. Rehn, New York (gifted directly from the artist)
Mr. Edward Gruson, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 December 1980, lot 118 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, 1970, no. 312, p. 61

Charles E. Burchfield, Painting Index, vol. II, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, 1970, no. 32

Nancy Weekly, Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods, Albany, 1993, p. 42

Robert Gober, Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, New York, 2009, p. 56

Colleen Lahan Makowski, Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography, Lanham, 1996, index p. 204