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THBWALDO PEIRCE (1884-1970) EXHIBITED OIL ON CANVAS
Lot 9
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Waldo Peirce (1884-1970)
Anna and Ned
1940
The widely exhibited oil on canvas is signed by Waldo Peirce with monogram of conjoined initials in brown pigment lower right front, and again on the canvas verso as WPeirce just above the title, date and size in brown paint by the same hand. The work is further identified by a Midtown Galleries label verso.
The composition portrays Anna Gabrielle, Waldo Peirce's daughter by the third of his four wives, and a Clydesdale horse, presumably Ned.
A statement from Midtown Galleries dated 1974 details the exhibition record for this work (see lot images) and lists its publication in Art Digest April 15, 1941. This and the original 1970 invoice from Midtown Galleries are included.
A catalog for the 1965 Waldo Peirce Retrospective listing and picturing Anna and Ned is also included. The illustrated image bears the date '40' near the signature lower right which apparently was later painted over.
See Baridoff Auctions August 2006 annual auction, lot 295, Peirce's 1940 preliminary study for this work.
See lot 11 of Baridoff's August 1999 auction for a very similar composition by Peirce from 1937 titled The Ordway Barn. The canvases share a similar basic composition and a number of details.
The six feet two inch Waldo Peirce was the stuff of a Hemingway novel. He truly did drive an ambulance in World War I (Hemingway was running a mobile canteen dispensing chocolate and cigarettes for soldiers), Waldo Peirce ran with the bulls in Pamplona and was elected to the Isawa of Hammamet, a lodge of whirling dervishes who practiced physically active meditation in Tunisia. Only difference is Peirce was an artist as well, which didn't necessarily fit with the bawdy, masculine themes Hemingway wrote about, but Pierce made it work. His oil on canvas portrait of his buddy Ernest Hemingway graced the cover of TIME magazine in 1937. It has been suggested that Waldo Peirce was the man Hemingway most wanted to be.
Canvas measures 30 x 40 with a framed size of 36.5 x 47 inches.
Provenance: Purchased from Midtown Galleries, the artist's dealer, May 2, 1970 and through descent to the present owner.
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Until further notice, we cannot offer international shipping in-house.Very good condition, noting scattered touches of inpainting visible under UV light along the upper stretcher edge, a few very minor touches along the lower portion of the canvas, less than 3% of area affected total. There are fine white lines of visible craquleure-like fine lines near the window resulting form medium issues, there are no scratches, chips, losses, areas of instability or punctures.Condition
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