Live Auction 2318Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
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Lot 93 Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

Sea of Queen Anne's Lace and Cicada Song

Closed20 May 2010

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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Sea of Queen Anne's Lace and Cicada Song
signed with initials in monogram and dated 'CEB/1960' (lower left)--inscribed 'On a hot day/in midsummer/the metallic/song of the/Cicada/vibrates over/a sea of/Queen Anne's Lace' (on the reverse)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.), image; 13¼ x 11 in. (33.7 x 27.9 cm.), sheet

The artist.
Dr. and Mrs. Theodor Braasch, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, acquired from the above.
Private collection, by descent.
Sotheby's, New York, 13 September 2006, lot 36.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.