LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Size Notes:

canvas: 13½ by 11 in.; 34.2 by 27.9 cm

Description:

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Markings:

Albert F. Egan Jr. & Dorothy H. Egan Foundation

Condition:

framed: 17? by 15? in.; 44.7 by 38.4 cm The board is painted on both sides. Front: The paint surface is stable but slightly soiled. Some damage to corners and two pin pricks at upper and lower right corners. There is a pattern of pigment separation in the boy's left foot and red cap. Under UV light, some small scattered spots of retouching in the boy's clothes and a vertical line of retouching approximately 2 inches in length in the sky at right. Back: There is a small area of paint loss at the upper edge and an approximately 1 inch horizontal line of paint loss in the foreground at left. Under UV light, no apparent inpainting.

Literature:

Margaret Moore Booker, Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, Nantucket 2001, pp. 116-17, 169 n. 5, pl. 25.

Provenance:

William Doyle Galleries, New York Albert F. Egan Jr., Nantucket, Massachusetts (purchased December 1998) Albert F. Egan & Dorothy H. Egan Foundation (December 1999)