CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)

Lot 103
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ID 931859
Lot 103 | CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)
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$ 250 000 – 350 000
CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD (1893-1967)

Haunted Twilight

signed with initials in monogram and dated 'CEB/1957' (lower right)—dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)

mixed media on paper laid down on board

image, 17 1/2 x 22 in. (44.5 x 55.9 cm.);

overall, 19 x 24 in. (48.3 x 60.9 cm.)

Executed in 1957.





Provenance

The artist.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Richter, son-in-law and daughter of the above, by descent, 1967.

Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Spiller, Buffalo, New York.

Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1970.



Literature

J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 268, no. 1160 (as Spider with Old House and Pine Trees).

M.A. Erhardt, E. Broun, The Norma Lee and Martin Funger Art Collection, Lunenburg, Vermont, 1999, pp. 48-49, illustrated (as Spider with Old House and Pine Trees).



Exhibited

Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, The Nature of Charles Burch?eld: A Memorial Exhibition, April 9-May 31, 1970, no. 249 (as Spider with Old House and Pine Trees).



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.
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