Alexis Paul Arapoff (Russian/American, 1904-1948)

View Across the Charles River from Harvard Business School to Lowell House
Signed "ARAPOFF" l.l.
Gouache and watercolor on paper/board, sight size 19 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (49.5 x 67.5 cm), framed.
Condition: Small accretion to u.l. corner, not examined out of frame.

Provenance: Sold for the benefit of the Higginson 1908 Foundation, donated by the Harvard Club of Boston. Originally a gift from William Germain Dooley (1904-1975), art critic, writer and educator of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

N.B. Seen from the Harvard Business School campus, this view is across Baker Library Lawn with Gallatin Hall in the left foreground.

Condition: Framed dimensions are 31 3/4 x 38 1/4 x 1 inches.

The accretion mentioned above appears to be only a stray particle of white gouache, original to the work. There is a small vertical abrasion (1/2 inch) in the sky and tree branches at the upper right edge.


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