DE SCOTT EVANS | TAXIDERMIST

DE SCOTT EVANS
1847 - 1898
TAXIDERMIST

signed DE SCOTT EVANS and dated 1881 (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 by 24 inches
(37.5 by 61 cm)

Condition Report:
The work is lined, the edges covered in brown tape and tacked to modern stretchers. There are frame abrasions along the extreme outer edges and surface cracking throughout. Under UV: the work retains a discolored varnish layer which reads strongly under UV and there are scattered small spots and pindots of inpaint throughout, including small spots of inpaint to address frame abrasions along the outer edges and scattered fine lines of inpaint to address surface cracking in the lower quadrant.

Provenance:
Alexander Gallery, New York

Private collection, 2000 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, August 17, 2017, lot 3)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale