Lot 60
  • 60

ANNA MARY ROBERTSON (GRANDMA) MOSES | A Snowy Morn

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • A Snowy Morn
  • signed MOSES. © (lower center); dated Oct 5, 1954, numbered 1647 and titled A Snowy Morn (on an original Grandma Moses label affixed to the reverse; copyright reserved to Grandma Moses Properties, New York)
  • oil and glitter on board
  • 12 1/4 by 17 3/4 inches
  • (31.1 by 45.1 cm)

Provenance

The artist
Forest Willis, Albany, New York (gift from the above)
Private collection (his son-in-law; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 1999, lot 242)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Literature

Artist's record book, p. 63
Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, no. 1158, p. 314, illustrated

Condition

There is frame abrasion with associated loss at edges and the work appears to be slightly dirty. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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