Live Auction 2602American Art
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Lot 123 Property from the Estate of Marion Bulger, Buffalo New York

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

The Woodpecker

Closed28 November 2012

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USD 170,500

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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
The Woodpecker
signed with monogram and dated 'CEB/1955-64' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on joined paper laid down on board
20 x 11 in. (50.8 x 27.9 cm.)

The artist.
Dr. and Mrs. Paul G. Bulger, Orchard Park, New York, gift from the above, 1965.
Marion Bulger, Buffalo, New York, by descent.

Specialist note

The Woodpecker relates to two larger works by Charles Burchfield: The Red Woodpecker (1955, private collection) and The Woodpecker (1955-63, The Reynolda House Museum, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina).