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FINE AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PAINTINGS &
SCULPTURE
6 DECEMBER 2009
LOT 113
JASPER FRANCIS CROPSEY
(american 1823-1900)
"AUTUMN ON THE HUDSON"
Signed 'J.F. Cropsey' bottom left, oil on canvas
20 x 32 in. (50.8 x 81.3cm)
provenance:
Ben J. Selkirk & Sons Auction, St. Louis, Missouri,
November 13-16, 1939, lot 325.
Acquired at the above by Harold Z. Riley, Clayton,
Missouri.
By family descent.
Private Collection, North Carolina.
note:
Kenneth W. Maddox of the Newington-Cropsey
Foundation compares this work to a similar work, in
the Foundation's collection entitled 'Hudson Highlands
Sunset'. He believes both were painted between
1895-1900, and probably closer to 1900.
'Autumn On The Hudson' will be included in the
forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works of
Jasper Francis Cropsey by the Newington-Cropsey
Foundation, Hastings-On-Hudson, New York.
Estimate $100,000-150,000
Oil on fabric mounted onto linen with wax-resin
adhesive.
The painting is signed at the lower left corner. There
appears to be an illegible signature of inscription at
the lower right. There is a repaired retouched
complex tear at the center water visible under
ultraviolet illumination. Other retouching, visible in
UV light, appears in the sunburst and in the orange
bushes and trees at left. The retouching in the bushes
and trees appears dense relative to the aspect of
surrounding paint. Overall the painting is in good
stable condition.
Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line
catalogue formats do not include condition reports.
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