Sale 09PT02 | Lot 55

Joseph Mellor Hanson

Catalogue: Modern & Contemporary and European & American Art
Joseph Mellor Hanson

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


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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Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000
Unsold

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Modern & Contemporary and European & American Art

Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10am EST
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