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Lot 127 Property Sold to Benefit The Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Taos, New Mexico
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Mid-Afternoon
Closed28 October 2020
Price Realised
USD 30,000
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Specialist note
We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.
On the same day he executed Mid-Afternoon, the artist recorded in his journal: "How the hot noon sun pours down on the glaring crimson roses./A heat withered leaf falling in a sun-hazed forest –/Stars zigzagging above the lightning -lit horizon with its jagged border of black trees –/Poplars dying in the noon heat-haze —(Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Vol. 27B “Extra,” July 6, 1916, p. 66)
On the same day he executed Mid-Afternoon, the artist recorded in his journal: "How the hot noon sun pours down on the glaring crimson roses./A heat withered leaf falling in a sun-hazed forest –/Stars zigzagging above the lightning -lit horizon with its jagged border of black trees –/Poplars dying in the noon heat-haze —(Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Vol. 27B “Extra,” July 6, 1916, p. 66)