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The Ruby Wine

NBI ID: 398.I
Title: The Ruby Wine
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 21
Signature: "R.A. Blakelock" lower left; no visible signature
Current Owner: Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
URL of Owner: http://www.gilcrease.org/
CityState: Tulsa, OK
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Provenance: William T. Evans, New York, NY, 1909; Lotus Club Collection, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1939; W.W> Fuller Sale, 1940; Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
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Subject Description: Two winged Bacchic putti standing in a vat of grapes, others in the background; with a youth in the foreground holding up a goblet of wine. Within a painted jeweled frame with inner border of grapevines.
Condition: Generally good. Some fissuring.
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Additional Examination Notes: William Gerdts reports that Blakelock is known to have worked, painting plaques and decorative panels, for an art factory in Newark, NJ.