Lot 01

MARVIN CONE (American 1893-1965) Fall Landscape, 1923 Oil on canvas
Signed lower right “MARVIN D CONE” and dated 1923
32 inches x 38 inches

Estimate $75,000-$125,000

Provenance: Marvin Cone Jack and Hazel Jackson, circa 1923 Thence by descent through the family As anyone who has experienced the open plains and gently rolling hills of Iowa can attest, Marvin Cone's innate ability to capture these poetic clouded vistas, well known to all natives, are not only the images that first really launched his career but are the very images that continue to draw throngs of new admirers to his paintings. In his book Marvin Cone Art As Self Portrait, Joseph Czestochowski writes, "During the 1920's Cone would increasingly develop simple landscape views into powerfully evocative and intensely personal works. Cones clouded landscapes represent the continuation of a systematic move away from an impressionistic style toward compositions characterized by precise design. His brush strokes became more direct, in contrast to the short choppy stokes of his earlier work. Light, however, remained the vehicle through which he expressed the vitality and immediacy of the form before him." The offered lot is the largest work by Cone ever presented for auction and would also rank among one of the largest works ever produced by the artist.