Lot 4
  • 4

Alfred Henry Maurer

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Henry Maurer
  • Abstract Portrait
  • signed A.H. Maurer, l.l.

  • gouache with traces of charcoal on paper

  • 21 3/8 by 17 3/4 in.
  • 51.8 by 45 cm.
  • Executed circa 1930

Provenance

Babcock Galleries, New York

Condition

in good condition; some rippling to sheet (from wetness when pigment was applied); pinholes along upper and lower edges; a few minor nicks along edges; sheet appears to have been hand-cut by artist along right side (just a bit uneven in a few spots (not a condition problem); sheet is hinged to (non-acidic) backing with pieces of white paper tape at corners on verso
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