ID 845915
Lot 282 | CHARLES BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
Advancing Clouds
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'CEB 1946-63' (lower right); titled and dated again '"ADVANCING CLOUDS" 1946-1963' (on the reverse)
watercolor, graphite and chalk on paper laid down on board
35 7/8 x 26 3/4 in. (100 x 67.8 cm.)
Executed in 1946-1963.
Provenance
Frank Rehn Gallery, New York
James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo
Gallery Without Walls, Buffalo
Mr. Laurence Goodyear, Buffalo, 1967
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
J. S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 300, no. 1266.
C. L. Makowski, Charles Burchfield: An Annotated Bibliography, Lanham, Maryland, 1996, pp. 37 and 77, no. 369 and 698.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 29th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, February-April 1965, no. 24.
Buffalo, James Goodman Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Watercolors, Drawings, December, 1966,
Buffalo, State University College, Charles Burchfield Center, Works by Charles Burchfield: Permanent and Loan Collection Exhibition, January 1970-April 1971
Buffalo, State University College, Burchfield Art Center, Charles Burchfield: Hidden Treasures, December 1986-January 1987, pp. 9 and 14 (illustrated).
New York, DC Moore Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter, June-September 2010, pp. 110 and 117 (illustrated).
Post lot text
We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
Artist: | Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 - 1967) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
Art style: | Modern art |
Artist: | Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 - 1967) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
Art style: | Modern art |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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