Christie's: IMPORTANT AMERICAN PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE: Lot 16
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
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Ernest Lee Parker signed with initials 'T.E.' (lower right)--signed, dated and inscribed 'To my friend Ernest Parker/1910/Thomas Eakins' (on the reverse) prior to lining oil on canvas 241/4 x 20 in. (61.6 x 50.8 cm.) PROVENANCE Ernest Lee Parker, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gift of the artist. Mrs. Betty Parker Theordorides. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York. LITERATURE L. Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, no. 472, pp. 205-206 F. Porter, Thomas Eakins, New York, 1959, no. 79, illustrated I. Monro and K. Monro, Index to the Reproduction of American Paintings First Supplement, New York, 1964, p. 148 G. Hendricks, Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, no. 208a NOTES Lloyd Goodrich noted (in 1971) that in 1930, Clarence Cranmer, a journalist and friend of Eakins, told him that this was Eakins' last head-and-bust portrait.
