Auction: Discovery - 2466Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: July 15, 2009 2:00PM
Description:
James Meikle Guy (American, 1909-1983)
Surrealist Mountain Landscape / A Six-Panel Mural
Unsigned.
Oil on fiberboard, each panel approx. 83 x 36 x 1 1/4 in., unframed.
Condition: Surface grime, abrasions, losses, cracking.
Estimate $2,000-4,000
Condition from L to R: First panel with three gouges and resulting paint loss, largest approximately 5 1/2 x 5 in.; third panel with one gouge and resulting paint cracking; fourth panel with two gouges, largest approximately 11 1/2 x 9 in.; each panel with grooves along side for tabbed joints, comprised of 1/2 in. plywood sandwiched between two sheets of fiberboard.