ID 1401094
Lot 3 | CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
Pear Tree in September
signed with initials in monogram 'CEB' (lower right)—dated '1949' (on the reverse)
watercolor, pen and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard
22 ½ x 31 in. (57.2 x 78.7 cm.)
Executed in 1949.
Provenance
The artist.
Charles Arthur Burchfield, son of the above, gift from the above.
Private collection, New York.
DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2014.
Literature
C.E. Burchfield, Journals, October 17, 1949.
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 234, no. 1056.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Gallery; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles Burchfield, January 11, 1956-February 10, 1957, p. 18, no. 77.
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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