Charles Ephraim Burchfield's The Promise of Spring (1956) is valued at $125,000-175,000 ahead of a sale of American art at Sotheby's New York.
It last sold for $168,000 at Christie's New York in 2006.
 Burchfield painted the Promise of Spring in the mid 1950s |
Burchfield's work has proven increasingly popular of late, as wider audiences discover his strange and unearthly watercolours.
He was described by critic Jerry Saltz in a 2005 edition of the Village Voice as "the mystic, cryptic painter of transcendental landscapes, trees with telekinetic halos, and haunted houses emanating ectoplasmic auras."
In 2012, a painting titled Golden Dream made a record $1.2m at Christie's New York.
George Innes' (1825-1894) The Passing Storm is also on offer, with a valuation of $80,000-120,000.
Innes is regarded as a key figure in the history of American landscape painting. This present lot was painted towards the end of his life (circa 1892-1894).
The sale will include works from other well known American artists, including Edward Willis Redfield and Thomas Worthington Whittredge.
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