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| x | Lot 18 | Joseph C. Leyendecker | 1874-1951 | x | |||||||
| x | Sculpted head of Abraham Lincoln. | x | |||||||||
| x | ÒWith Malice Toward None. With Charity For AllÓ Preliminary study for mag. cover, Saturday Evening Post, February 12, 1938; Oil and graphite on canvas, 12 x 8.75", not signed. | x | |||||||||
| x | Estimate: $9,000 - 12,000 | x | |||||||||
| x | Provenance: Raymond Rabreau Note: the use of the diamond grid lines drawn in pencil was a technique that enabled the artist to scale up the image to the size of the finished canvas, which would have a similar grid drawn on it at a larger scale. |
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| x | Very good condition overall: cleaned and relined with Beva by Roxana Lehmann-Haupt; one small in-paint in red background by chin; several tiny in-paints in grey background at top. Grid lines were drawn through wet paint. Linen liner and gilt frame handmade by Munn. | x | |||||||||
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| x | Above is the painting in its gilt frame.
Below is the published magazine cover, © copyright Curtis Publishing Company |
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