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American & Southern Auction | October 16, 2024

Wed, Oct 16, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 647

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

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(American, 1847-1919)

Indian Encampment on the Lake, oil on canvas, signed lower left "Blakelock", 15 x 25 in.; fine ornate gilt wood and composition frame, 27 x 37 in.

Provenance: Steven Straw, Inc., Newburyport, Massachusetts; Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York; Alfred A. Funai, New York; Private Collection, Connecticut; Christie's, New York, New York, September 27, 2004, lot 63; Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above; Private Collection, Massachusetts, 2005

Exhibitions: Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius, November 15-December 15, 2005, label verso.

Literature: Ralph Albert Blakelock: The Great Mad Genius (New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2005), 44, plate 31.; John Zeaman, "Visions of a Troubled Genius: An American Original Gets His Due," review of Ralph Albert Blackelock: The Great Mad Genius, Questroyal Fine Art, New York, New Jersey Record, November 25, 2005, 28.

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Steven Straw, Inc., Newburyport, Massachusetts; Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York; Alfred A. Funai, New York; Private Collection, Connecticut; Christie's, New York, New York, September 27, 2004, lot 63; Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above; Private Collection, Massachusetts, 2005

laid on panel, conserved in 2003 at the Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, treatment label verso; frame with small losses, including loss at lower right corner