20th Century Design
Description:
Robert Fremont Conover (American, 1920-1998)
Night Shapes, 1949
Signed and dated "CONOVER 1949" on the reverse, identified on labels from the William H. Lane Foundation, Leominster, Massachusetts, Museum of Modern Art Loan, New York, and The New Gallery, New York, affixed to the stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 51 x 30 in., framed.
Condition: Minor surface grime.
Exhibitions: Young Painters U.S.A., World Assembly of Youth, August 1951, Invitation Exhibition, Ithaca, New York.
Estimate $10,000-12,000
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Robert Fremont Conover, Ithaca
20th Century Design
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