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Western and Contemporary Native American Art
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- Sale 2060
Live
| Denver
Nov 12 | 12:00 PM MST
Live
| Denver
Sale 2060
| Denver
| Denver
Estimate$20,000 – $30,000
Provenance:
Wieboldt Estate, Evanston Illinois
Acquired from the above by Eugene F. Gavin, 1952
Thence by descent to present owner
A Montana native, Fremont Ellis settled in Santa Fe, NM, in 1919, and in 1921, was a founding member of Los Cinco Pintores, a group of modernist artists also including Josef Bakos, Walter Mruk, Will Shuster, and Willard Nash. Ellis distinguished himself from his peers by a less avant-garde approach, relying instead on techniques borrowed from both realism and impressionism, as well as the photographic medium.
October Aspen evinces visual accuracy through a masterful portrayal of natural light, bathing peaks and recesses in the mountainous landscape in the background, while also spotlighting the aspen in the foreground with their subtly varied autumn shades, as if capturing a fleeting moment in time. The composition further subjugates the gaze to the heights surrounding Santa Fe through an opening amidst the trees, thereby guiding and immersing the viewer in the grandeur of the landscape.
Deposits of surface dirt and dust, visible primarily throughout lighter pigments of skyline; faint hairline craquelure developing throughout upper half; one small point of paint lifting in upper right quadrant, approximately 5 inches from top edge and 16 1/2 inches from right edge; area of loss, approximately 1/2 inch in diameter, at center canvas, . Framed dimensions: 43 3/8 x 56 1/8 inches. Please request additional images.
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Alexandria Dreas
Specialist, Head of Sale, Western and Contemporary Native American Art
