GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS | Upper Manhattan

Private collects ion (acquired directly from the artist)
Sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, April 17, 1975, lot 85
Private collects ion, Southwest (acquired from the above sale, sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, April 20, 1979, lot 106)
Private collects ion (acquired at the above sale)
[with]Beacon Hill Replica Handbags , New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, The Eight, April 1977
New York, Owen Gallery, The Eight, April-June 1997
New York, Owen Gallery, George Luks: An Artistic Legacy, October-December 1997, p. 35

The canvas is unlined and the work appears to be slightly dirty. There is frame abrasion at the edges and artist's pinholes at corners. There are stretcher bar marks at the left, right and top edges, and minor surface cracking in some areas of thicker impasto. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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