Albert York (American, 1928–2009) Pink Rose on a Yellow Ground

Watercolor and pencil on paper
Sheet size: 14 1/2 x 13 in. (36.8 x 33cm)
Executed in 1980.

Provenance

The Artist.
Davis Galleries (now Davis & Langdale Company Inc.), New York, New York (Y 266).
Acquired directly from the above.
Private Collection, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Private Estate, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Footnote:

Note

The present work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the artist's work being compiled by Cecily Langdale, of Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York. We wish to thank Cecily Langdale for her kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Condition report:

In overall fair condition. The sheet is uneven, and housed in a mat that opens from right to left (as a book). It is affixed to the undermat via four pieces of old linen tape placed on the left and right outer edges of the sheet at upper left and upper right. With two pinholes at upper left and upper right corners. With severe mat staining along the image, corresponding to the edges of the mat. With a multitude of minuscule brown spots in the margins (invisible when framed) corresponding to surface soiling rather than fox marks in our opinion. We do believe the work would need to be housed in a new, acidic-free frame.
Frame: 18 x 17 x 1 in.