$1,900
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Auction: April 6, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
With 'C.E.B.' stamp and ink notation 'C-145' bottom right, charcoal on tan board with drawn borders.
Executed circa 1940.
6 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (15.6 x 21.6cm)
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York.
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. (acquired directly from the above in 2001).
note:
This pencil drawing is a preliminary study for Burchfield's important watercolor "Lavender and Old Lace," currently in the collection of the New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut.