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Property from a Private Collection, Vermont

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

New Moon in the Woods

Session begins in

22:50:30

May 14, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Bid

90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Vermont

Charles Ephraim Burchfield

1893 - 1967


New Moon in the Woods

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1947-64 (lower right); titled and dated 1947-1964 (on the reverse)

watercolor on joined paper laid down on board

33 ¾ by 19 ½ in.

85.7 by 49.6 cm.

Executed in 1947-64. 


We are grateful for the research conducted by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York

Kennedy Galleries, New York

Private Collection, Philadelphia

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, New York, 1 December 2005, lot 24 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 48, 23 April 1947, pp. 16-17

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, vol. 62, 21 April 1964, pp. 54-55

Joseph S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, no. 1293, p. 306

Matthew Baigell, Charles Burchfield, New York, 1976, p. 18, illustrated

Buffalo, State University College, Upton Hall Gallery, Charles Burchfield: Recent Paintings, 1963, no. 42