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#51 ~ Kane - Portrait of Maungwudaus
#51 ~ Kane - Portrait of Maungwudaus
Lot #51

Artist Paul Kane
Title Portrait of Maungwudaus
Media oil on canvas
Dated ca.  1851
Size 30 x 25 x 1 in. / 76.2 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm.

Notes
bears name and date on plaque; bears title 'Pine Tree' on ROM label verso; relined and some touch-up noted

Reference
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, label verso [ROM# L957.11]; listed as catalogue raisonné CR III-128 in Harper; a virtually identical portrait of Maungwudaus in R.O.M. collection [ROM #912.1.58]

Provenance
Commissioned from Paul Kane circa 1851 by a Mr. Crewe, and then sent to England; repatriated about 20 years later by the eldest son of Mr. Crewe; Royal Canadian Institute; on loan to the Canadiana Gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 16, 1957; purchased Sotheby's Canada, June 1999; on loan to the National Gallery of Canada
Estimate CAD$2,800,000-$3,000,000

Sold
CAD $2,420,000
2002/12/01

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