02-19-200602-19-2006
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2308Boston
February 19, 2006 11:00 AMCalender
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Folk Art Painted Fireboard

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$70,000$70,000
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2308Location: BostonDate / Time: February 19, 2006 11:00AM

Description:

Folk Art Painted Fireboard, America, early 19th century, the three-board panel depicting a Federal farmhouse with two smoking chimneys, a white split-rail fence and tree-lined road, with distant hills, applied red painted wooden molding, (scattered small paint losses),39 1/2 x 51 in.

Provenance: Ex Gerald Kornblau, New York.

Literature: This fireboard is illustrated in American Country: FOLK ART. Created by Rebus, Inc., published by Time-Life Books, 1990, on the cover and pp. 150-151., and also illustrated in the article "Folk Art in Festive Dress," House Beautiful, December 1986, Volume 128, number 12, on the cover and p. 45.
Estimate $40,000-60,000

Keywords

Federal farmhouse, Gerald Kornblau, Ex Gerald Kornblau, Rebus Inc., House Beautiful