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Lot 94

Levi Wells Prentice
(1851-1935)
A Basket of Peaches

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$12,160 inc. premium

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Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935)

A Basket of Peaches
signed 'L.W. Prentice.' (lower right); signed and dated 'L.W. Prentice. / 1891.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33.0 cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
A private collection (gifted from the previous).
Sotheby's, New York, American Paintings, March 23, 2005, lot 42.
The present private collection (acquired from the previous).

N.B.
Self-taught artist Levi Wells Prentice was born on a farm in northwestern New York and began his career traveling throughout and painting the landscape of the Adirondack Mountains. After establishing a studio in Syracuse, New York, he turned from landscape to still life painting, producing the meticulously detailed and remarkably realistic works for which he is best known today. His still lifes reflect an emphasis on contrast - contrast of texture, color, and shape - and on the interaction of manmade objects, such as a basket or table, and nature. Prentice's works are held in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

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