
Lot 33W
Emile Gruppe(1896-1978)Winter Trees 32 x 40in
24 May 2017, 10:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$25,000 inc. premium
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Emile Gruppe (1896-1978)
Winter Trees
signed and dated 'Emile A. Gruppe - / 1927' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 40in
signed and dated 'Emile A. Gruppe - / 1927' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 x 40in
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, Washington.
Sale, Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, April 23, 2015, lot 94.
Private collection, Connecticut, acquired from the above.
The present work likely depicts Woodstock, New York, where Emile Gruppe painted en plein air with artist John F. Carlson (1875-1945). Carlson was one of Gruppe's most influential mentors, and in 1942, the two artists co-founded a summer school in Gloucester, Massachusetts.