Description:
Emile Albert Gruppé (American, 1896-1978)
Rocky Neck, East Gloucester
Signed "Emile A. Gruppe" l.l., titled and signed or inscribed "...by/Emile A. Gruppé" in ink on the reverse, identified on a joint exhibition label from Fine Arts Associates of Cheshire, Connecticut, and the Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Massachusetts (see below).
Oil on canvasboard, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.5 cm),framed.
Condition: Minor retouch along the horizon and at the upper edge of the canvasboard
Exhibitions: Cheshire Art Associates and the Rockport Art Association, Reminiscences of Emile A. Gruppé: the artist and the man: a retrospective, July 1-31, 1992, Rockport, Massachusetts.
N.B. An invoice from Stephen Score, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, accompanies the lot.
Estimate $8,000-12,000
Framed dimensions are 18 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.
Kensington Canvas Sketching Panel with a label from Favor, Ruhl & Co., New York, Boston, and Chicago.
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