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Lot 83 Property from the Jay P. Altmayer Family Collection
William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
A Distinguished Visitor to the Exposition
Closed22 May 2018
Price Realised
USD 32,500
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Specialist note
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by John Fowler.
August P. Trovaioli and Roulhac B. Toledano write of the present work, "'Hotel Royal' [on the figure's bag] refers to a fashionable boarding house in the French Quarter, New Orleans, frequented by [William Aiken] Walker. Also, there is an advertisement for Green River Whisky with this same figure, Deacon Cuffy, standing by a mule." (William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1972, p. 91)
August P. Trovaioli and Roulhac B. Toledano write of the present work, "'Hotel Royal' [on the figure's bag] refers to a fashionable boarding house in the French Quarter, New Orleans, frequented by [William Aiken] Walker. Also, there is an advertisement for Green River Whisky with this same figure, Deacon Cuffy, standing by a mule." (William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1972, p. 91)