Moonlight
NBI ID: 210.ITitle: Moonlight
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 17 5/8 x 12 7/16
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" lower left
Current Owner: David Findlay Galleries
URL of Owner: http://www.davidfindlaygalleries.com/
CityState: New York, NY
Date: 1981
Provenance: Mrs. John Hanson Rhodes, New York; Macbeth, 1903; Vose, 1904; J. R. Andrews, New York, 1906; Andrews et al sale AAA Jan. 28, 1916, No. 104; illus.; Engineer's Club, New York; William Doyle Galleries, 1978; Christies, May 1980; David Findlay Galleries, Inc., 1981
Published:
Exhibited: Reinhardt, 1916; Whitney, 1947; Santa Barbara, 1969
Subject Description: View across body of water, tall tree overhanging branches fill left hand side of painting. Low dark masses of foliage on distant bank, full moon in upper center. Signed, R.A. Blakelock within arrowhead, lower left.
Condition: Painting extremely dirty, evidence of some superficial cleaning and retouches around the moon and in the reflections in the water, also at the lower left.
Infra-red: Reveals the blurred and rather casual character of the painting in the foliage patterns.
UltraViolet: Reveals retouches.
Color:
X-ray: Reveals a peculiar pattern in the ground coat, especially in the moon which is not fully painted.
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