Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Hollyhocks
Lot Closed
March 16, 04:27 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Ephraim Burchfield
1894 - 1967
Hollyhocks
signed Chas Burchfield— (lower right)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
14 by 20 1/2 in.
36 by 52 cm.
Executed in 1921.
We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.
Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York
John L. Sexton
Mrs. Ellen Keaveny (acquired as a gift from the above in 1940)
Ms. Mary V. Keaveny, Wilmington, Delaware (acquired in 1960)
Sotheby’s New York, 24 May 1990, lot 206
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, Exhibition by Charles Burchfield, March - April 1930, no. 25, n.p.
John W. Straus, Charles E. Burchfield: An Interview with the Artist, and Account and Analysis of His Production, and a Catalogue of His Paintings, Honors thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942, no. 520
Joseph S. Trovato, ed., Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 680, p. 102