LEVI WELLS PRENTICE | STILL LIFE OF APPLES IN A HAT

LEVI WELLS PRENTICE
1851 - 1935
STILL LIFE OF APPLES IN A HAT

signed L.W. Prentice. and dated 1891 (center right); also signed again (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
16 by 13 inches
(40.6 by 33 cm)

Condition Report:
The canvas is unlined and there is frame abrasion at edges. There is scattered fine surface cracking and there are a few specks of loss in the tree trunk above the brim of the hat. There is a small reinforcement on the back of the canvas, which does not appear to correspond to any inpainting. Under UV: the work retains an uneven varnish and there are a few scattered pindots of possible inpainting.

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Provenance:
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1970