ID 1401063
Lot 37 | CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
The Promise of Spring
signed with initials in monogram and dated 'CEB/1956' (lower left)—signed again 'Burchfield,' dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
watercolor and charcoal on paper laid down on board
40 x 27 in. (101.6 x 68.6 cm.)
Executed in 1956.
Provenance
The artist.
Frank K.M. Rehm Galleries, New York.
Private collection, Youngstown, Ohio, acquired from the above.
Private collection, Florida, by descent from the above.
Christie's, New York, 30 November 2006, lot 34, sold by the above.
Private collection, Fort Worth, Texas, acquired from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 April 2015, lot 31.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 264, no. 1146.
Exhibited
Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art, Charles Burchfield in Ohio, December 11, 1983-January 8, 1984, no. 6.
New York, Owen Gallery, American Paintings with a Selection of Works by William Glackens, November 2007, pp. 52-53, illustrated.
Further details
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: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 - 1967) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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