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Jul 27, 2017 - Jul 28, 2017
Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969) Grouse Under Pines, c. 1955
signed "A Lassell Ripley" upper left
watercolor, 18 1/2 by 28 3/4 in.
Sporting art collector, Guido R. Perera, a friend and patron of the artist, marvels at Ripley’s knowledge of the artist’s favorite game bird, writing in "Sporting Etchings," “Aiden may have been a grouse in one incarnation.”
Provenance: Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Collection, acquired from Sportsman's Edge Ltd., New York
Literature: Dana S. Lamb and Guido Perera, "Sporting Etchings by A. Lassell Ripley," Barre, MA 1970, p. 8.
Stephen B. O'Brien, Jr. and Julie Carlson Wildfeuer, "The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley," Boston, MA, 2009, p. 10, plate 5, illustrated.
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