CHARLES BURCHFIELD
Moonlight.

Brush and ink and wash on cream wove paper, 1915. 215x278 mm; 8 1/2x10 3/4 inches. Initialed and dated in ink, lower left recto.

Accompanying this lot is a research report completed by the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

Provenance: James and Merle Goodman Collection, Buffalo, with the label; Mr. & Mrs. S. Jay Levy, New York, thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, New York.

Exhibited: "The Drawings of Charles E. Burchfield—An Exhibition Sponsored by The Print Club of Cleveland and The Cleveland Museum of Art," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, November 4-December 31, 1953, number 9, page 17; "Charles Burchfield—His Golden Year," The University of Arizona, Tucson, November 14, 1965-January 9, 1966, number 163, page 98, with the label.

Published: Edith H. Jones, editor, The Drawings of Charles Burchfield, 1968, plate 2 (illustrated).

 

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000