Lot 10
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WALT KUHN | Girl with Turban (Zuleika)

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Walt Kuhn
  • Girl with Turban (Zuleika)
  • signed Walt Kuhn and dated 1938 (lower left); also titled Girl with Turban and inscribed Zuleika twice (on the left tacking edge)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 x 40 in.; 76.2 x 101.6 cm

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private collection
Acquired by the present owner circa 1980s

Exhibited

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Walt Kuhn, March 1972, no. 23, illustrated 

Condition

The canvas is unlined. There are scattered areas of fine surface cracking and a speck of loss near center right edge. Under UV: the work retains an uneven varnish; there is a small dot of inpainting in the figure's chest at center.
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Catalogue Note

Featuring a subject reminiscent of her own early showgirl days, Kuhn’s Girl with Turban (Zuleika), always resonated closely with Barbara Sinatra. According to her son, Robert Marx, “That was her favorite painting. She called it her flapper….She always said I'm never going to part with that."