Lot 51
  • 51

Jessie Willcox Smith 1863 - 1935

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Jessie Willcox Smith
  • The Great Drawing-Room was Haunted by a Tuneful Spirit That Came and Went Unseen
  • signed Jessie Willcox Smith (lower left)
  • gouache, watercolor and charcoal on board
  • image: 26 1/4 by 16 1/2 inches (66.7 by 41.9 cm)
  • board: 30 by 19 3/4 inches (76.2 by 50.2 cm)
  • Executed circa 1915.

Provenance

Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts (commissioned from the artist)

Literature

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 1915, illustrated facing page 76
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Boston, Massachusetts, 1922, illustrated facing page 48
Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, pp. 69, 87, illustrated in color p. 87