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Sat, Oct 23, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 653

Edwin Burrage Child

Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

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(New York, 1868-1937)

Squash Blossoms--Playing Truant, 1900, signed and dated lower right "Edwin B. Child 1900", oil on canvas, 50 x 36 in.; fine period carved gilt wood and composition frame, 62-1/2 x 48-1/4 in.

Provenance: Bonhams California, November 19, 2002, sold for $38,190; Abby M. Taylor Fine Art, Greenwich, Connecticut (label verso); Private Bluffton, South Carolina Collection

Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Design, 17th Annual Exhibition, 1901, no. 430; Louisiana Purchase Exposition (The St. Louis World's Fair), Department of Art, 1904 (label verso); additional exhibition label verso partially obscured, under the title Playing Truant, n.d.; Greenleaf Skyes Studio, New York, 1908, no. 20.

Condition

lined, minimal crackle; frame with wear and abrasions

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