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Silver Dollar Bar (© Estate of the artist c/o Lefevre, London)
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© Estate of the artist c/o Lefevre, London

Silver Dollar Bar

Artist: Edward Burra (1905 - 1976)

Location: York Art Gallery

Date: 1948

Materials: watercolour

Dimensions: 11 x 72 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £4,000 (Total: £16,000)

Vendor: Lefevre Contemporary Art

Review number: 2886 (1980)

Provenance:
Collected by a friend of the artist's, the poet Conrad Aitken.

Description:
Dates from a visit to New York in 1948, when he stayed with the Aitkens in Boston. Inspired by a bar he frequented.

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