Dean Cornwell
Peter Sees the Figure on the Shore
Lot Closed
March 17, 05:48 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dean Cornwell
1892 - 1960
Peter Sees the Figure on the Shore
signed Dean Cornwell (lower left)
oil on canvas
34 by 45 1/4 in.
86.4 by 114.9 cm.
Executed circa 1948.
Estate of the artist
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Louisville, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Paintings & Drawings by Dean Cornwell Mural Painter, Illustrator & National Academician from Kentucky, 1953, no. 26, n.p.
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman, Boston, 1952, illustrated, pp. 200 & 201
Patricia Janis Broder, Dean Cornwell: Dean of Illustrators, New York, 1978, pp. 12 & 24
The present lot is being offered with a smaller oil study completed by the artist in preparations for the final composition. The study of the work measures 9 by 12 in. (22.9 by 30.5 cm.)
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