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Edgar Payne(1883-1947)The Matterhorn 28 x 34in
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Edgar Payne (1883-1947)
signed 'Edgar Payne' (lower left) and titled (on a label and the canvas on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 x 34in
overall: 37 x 43in
Footnotes
Literature
Stendahl Art Galleries, Edgar Alwin Payne and his work, Los Angeles, 1926, p. 28, pl. 11, illus.
Earl Stendahl writes the following note about this painting:
An Alpine scene of overwhelming impressiveness and grandeur in a brushwork whose particular virility of touch is native to Edgar Payne. The great mountain shows its fine silhouette against a sky delicately greenish in tone, its highest point wreathed in a nimbus of ever-changing yet ever-lasting cloud forms. At the mountains base the snow lies like a plateau whose upper edge melts from white into the perennial green of trees. This approach to the Matterhorn was reached by the artist on the train that runs to Gornergrat.
A signed and inscribed copy of the book Edgar Alwin Payne and his work, published by Standahl Art Galleries, 1926, accompanies the lot. Additionally, a copy of the original bill of sale, from Wilshire Art Galleries, Los Angeles, dated March 17, 1930, accompanies the lot.




















