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拍品 83 Property from the Jay P. Altmayer Family Collection
William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
A Distinguished Visitor to the Exposition
已结束2018年5月22日
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USD 32,500
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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)