Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2493Location: BostonDate / Time: January 29, 2010 12:00PM
Description:
Walter Gay (American, 1856-1937)
La Porte Ouverte, Chateau du Breau
Signed "Walter Gay" l.r., titled on a label affixed to the backing.
Watercolor and graphite on paper, sight size 21 x 17 1/2 in. (53.3 x 44.4 cm),framed.
Condition: Not examined out of frame.
Provenance: Mr. Eliot Wadsworth (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Harding),Boston, Massachusetts; then by descent within the family.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Unable to examine out of frame due to the work being taped around edges of glass, subtle toning.