$70,000
Folk Art Painted Fireboard, America, early 19th century, the three-board panel depicting a Federal farmhouse with two smoking chimneys, a white split-rail fence and tree-lined road, with distant hills, applied red painted wooden molding, (scattered small paint losses), 39 1/2 x 51 in. Provenance: Ex Gerald Kornblau, New York. Literature: This fireboard is illustrated in American Country: FOLK ART. Created by Rebus, Inc., published by Time-Life Books, 1990, on the cover and pp. 150-151., and also illustrated in the article "Folk Art in Festive Dress," House Beautiful, December 1986, Volume 128, number 12, on the cover and p. 45.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19