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- Sale 2106
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Closing from:Dec 10 | 5:00 PM EST
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Sale 2106
Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
Provenance:
Sold: Christie's, New York, January 19, 2000, Lot 2
Note:
This work comes from the Southampton, New York home of the collectors Catherine Cahill, now deceased, and William L. Bernhard, who continues to live in their Manhattan Park Avenue home. Lifelong New Yorkers, they spent summers in Southampton and Washington, Connecticut, and winters in Palm Beach, where Ms. Cahill decorated their retreat on Major Alley Way with the noted interior designer, Keith Irvine of Irvine and Fleming. Ms. Cahill was an animal rights activist, and a daughter of John T. Cahill, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a named partner in the international law firm, Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Mr. Bernhard is a philanthropist and descendant of the Lehman family of investment banking fame. He has served on many Boards of Directors, including the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, Film at Lincoln Center, and the Winston Churchill Foundation.
Unframed.
Moderate deposits of surface dirt and dust; white residual staining through the upper center, which appear to wipe off fairly easily; one indentation accompanied by paint loss in the upper left corner, no greater in diameter than 1/2 inch; light abrasions to the paint in the upper left corner; minor wear and rubbing along all edges; pinpoint white paint droplets in the lower left corner; a minor, vertical split in the panel is forming in the lower center, approximately 4 inches in length; additional small indentations scattered throughout the surface that do not affect the paint layer. Under UV light: the residual stains in the upper center fluoresce, but do not appear to be inpainting; possible areas of older inpainting in the upper right corner of the background; two areas of inpainting in the center right, with smaller spots around them; strokes and small spots of inpainting within the grapes and in scattered areas of the background along the lower center. Additional images available upon request.
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