Jun 12, 2008 - Sale 2149

Sale 2149 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GEORGE BELLOWS
Nude Study--Boy on Raft.

Conté crayon on cream wove paper, circa 1915. 255x203 mm; 10 1/8x8 inches. Inscribed "raft" in pencil, lower right recto. Inscribed "Geo. Bellows, ESB" by the artist's wife in pencil, verso. Ex-collection H. V. Allison & Co., New York, with their printed label.

Likely a study for a bather in the painting River-Front, No. 1, 1915, now in the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. According to Mason, there is another similar study, Seated Boy, charcoal, in the Cleveland Museum of Art.