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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 30, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Post-War to Present | 368 | $****** - ****** | The Round Cyprus Trail (Yellow Creek) |
paintings
162.6 x 213.4 cm (64 x 84 in)
oil on canvas
signed "BATES" (lower left); signed again, titled and dated "DAVID BATES THE ROUND CYPRESS TRAIL - (YELLOW CREEK) 86 6.26" (on the overlap)
Charles Cowles Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989
The Arts Club of Chicago, The Unquiet Landscape: Recent Expressionist and Fantasy Landscape Paintings , September-October 1989, n.p., no. 1.
DAVID BATES (B. 1952)
The Round Cyprus Trail (Yellow Creek)
signed "BATES" (lower left); signed again, titled and dated "DAVID BATES THE ROUND CYPRESS TRAIL - (YELLOW CREEK) 86 6.26" (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
64 x 84 in. (162.6 x 213.4 cm.)
Painted in 1986.