LOT - 2481
LOT - 2480
2480 - GEORGE MATHEWS HARDING (AMERICAN, 1882-1959) ROVIANA LAGOON. Titled on verso and dated 1954-1957. Provenance: From the Estate of George Harding. 1954-1957. Framed: 60 - 1/2” x 44 - 3/4” x 3”. 700 - 900 2481 - DOUGLAS WILTRAUT (AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY) LAKE SHORE BEACH. Watercolor. Signed lower left “Douglas Wiltraut”. Work Size: Sight: 28-1/2” x 40-3/4”. Frame: Contemporary wood frame, matted under glass. Framed: 49 - 1/2” x 37 - 1/2” x 1 - 3/4”. Condition: Good, with minor waving to paper, (not examined out of frame.). 700 - 900
LOT - 2482
362
2482 - JOSEPH WALLACE KING (AMERICAN, 1911-1996) GIRL OF FRIESOLE. Titled on stretcher and bearing a Bernheim-Jeune, Paris exhibition label affixed to stretcher which reads “EXPOSITION VINCIATO DU OCTOBRE 1958 AU.” Joseph Wallace King, who exhibited and signed his works “Vinciata”, was born in 1911 on a Virginia plantation. His art career took off when he befriended Charles Babcock, the husband of Mary Reynolds, the daughter of tobacco tycoon R.J. Reynolds. Charlie took a special interest in Joe and introduced him to Victor Hammer, director of Hammer Galleries in New York. Victor guided Joe to the right galleries in Europe where he could exhibit his new Vinciata style of painting, including the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery who offered him a one man show in Paris. The exhibition was a great success and “Vinciata” was launched. The following year an exhibition was arranged at the Hammer Galleries in New York and for the next twenty years Joe exhibited exclusively for Hammer. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Work Size: 23-1/2” x 19-1/2”. Frame: Vintage carved whitewashed frame. Framed: 30 -1/2” x 26 -3/4” x 1 -3/4”. Condition: Very good, with some surface grime and several small abrasions. 600 - 800
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