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Lilla Cabot Perry, Contemplation, Oil on Canvas
Lot 4032

Lilla Cabot Perry, Contemplation, Oil on Canvas

Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000
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Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848-1933), Contemplation, 1891, oil on canvas, [approximate dimensions - sight: 45" H x 34 1/4" W, canvas: 46" H x 35 1/4" W], unsigned. At verso: inscribed on stretcher 'L.C. Perry, Giverny, '91; Dresden '97; Debra Force Gallery, NYC label. Exhibited: International Art Exhibition, Dresden 1897; Panama Pacific San Francisco Exhibition 1917; Garden Museum, Matsue, Japan.

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Surface dust and dirt, some craquelure throughout, and milky varnish and apparent inpainting under UV light. Slighy foxing on canvas and dirt pockets verso. Framed: 56" H x 45" W. Contact Fine Arts Department for additional photos.

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Estate of Artist Margaret Perry and Patricia Holaert; to Debra Force Gallery NYC; to Garden Collection NYC, Matsue, Japan; to Private Collection Alameda, California. Literature: Alastair Duncan, Louis C Tiffany, The Garden Museum Collection, Antique Collectors Club Limited, Old Martlesham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, illustrated p. 650.

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