Joseph Decker

Lot 74: Joseph Decker (1853-1924)

Name: Joseph Decker (1853-1924)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 1pfeq68c7a

Est: $100,000 USD - $150,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USDecember 01, 2005

Item Overview

Description

Hard Candy
signed 'J. Decker' (lower left)
oil on canvas
9 x 14 in. (22.9 x 35.6 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Joseph Decker

Exhibited

New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Joseph Decker Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth, May 17-June 11, 1988, no. XVI.

Literature

Coe Kerr Gallery, Joseph Decker Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, no. XVI, illustrated.

Provenance

The artist.
By descent in the artist's family.

Notes

"Decker also returned to the subject of hard candy...the later hard-candy pictures glisten like Christmas ornaments as the light plays over their soft, multicolored, varied forms." (W.H. Gerdts, Coe Kerr Gallery, Joseph Decker, Still Lifes, Landscapes and Images of Youth, New York, 1988, n.p.)

Auction Details

American Paintings

Christie's

December 01, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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