Jun 14, 2018 - Sale 2482

Sale 2482 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CHARLES BURCHFIELD
Study for "Return of the Bluebirds".

Brush and ink and wash and pencil on paper, 1952. 205x280 mm; 8x11 inches. Initialed and dated in pencil, lower left recto.

Ex-collection Kathleen King; Thomas French Fine Art, Ohio, with the label on the frame back; private collection, Michigan.

Accompanying this lot is a research report completed by The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

This drawing is included in the artist's inventory list "1949-1953 My List of Drawings & Sizes," Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, inventory number 249.

The Burchfield Penney Art Center lists this drawing as a "transcription," or a drawing based on an earlier work. This work is related to the same-titled watercolor, circa 1917-18, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.