Sunlight after the Rain

Details

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Sunlight after the Rain
signed 'CE Burchfield' (lower right)--dated '6-17-1916-' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
19 ¾ x 13 ¾ in. (50.2 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1916.

Provenance

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York.
Helen and David B. Pall, Roslyn Estates, New York, acquired from the above.
Estate of the above.
Christie's, New York, 19 May 2005, lot 25, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

J.S. Trovato, Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections, Utica, New York, 1970, p. 46, no. 119.
W.C. Agee, et al., The Scharf Collection: A History Revealed, New York, 2018, pp. 47, 49, 173, pl. 23, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc.; Boston, Massachusetts, Adelson Galleries, Interpretations of Nature: An Exhibition and Sale of Early Watercolors by Charles Burchfield, January 20-May 16, 1970, n.p., no. 20, illustrated.

Présenté par

William Haydock

whaydock@christies.com 212-636-2140

Descriptif du lot

We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.

The present work was likely inspired by the view out the window of Charles Burchfield’s childhood home in Salem, Ohio.

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