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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
Lot 25

Charles Burchfield
(1893-1967)
Backyard 22 7/8 x 27 3/4 in. (58.1 x 70.5 cm.)

7 November 2023, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$32,000 inc. premium

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Charles Burchfield (1893-1967)

Backyard
signed with artist's monogram and dated 'CEB / 1938' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
22 7/8 x 27 3/4 in. (58.1 x 70.5 cm.)
Executed in 1938.

Footnotes

Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Zuckerman, New York.
Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York.
Harry Litwin (1907-2007), Wichita, Kansas.
Sale, Christie's, New York, December 5, 1986, lot 296, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

Literature
J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 180, no. 883.

This lot is accompanied by a research report completed by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, Head of Collections & Charles Cary Rumsey Curator of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York. We wish to thank her for her kind assistance cataloging this lot.

The present work depicts a view of the artist's backyard and the back of his Gardenville, New York home from the perspective of his studio.

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