Lot Details
Lot 55
Joseph Mellor Hanson
American, 1900-1963
Allegory, 1929
Signed JMH and dated 1929 on the reverse
Oil on panel
19 3/8 x 42 1/2 inches (49.2 x 108 cm)
Provenance:
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithica, NY
Purchased by the current owner Dec. 12, 1986
Exhibited:
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, No. 63.40
C
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000
Unsold
Additional Notes & Condition Report
The tan ground color at the left side of the painting has cracking. In the sky there are aproximately 7 horizontal cracks in the panel that are showing through the paint layer in random intervals. The figure in the sky, right of center has a grey pigment along the upper right edge. this grey pigment flouresces under black light. Two areas of paint loss at the far right edge. An area of drying cracquelure, aproximately 4 x 6 inches, at the lower left .
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