Lot 57
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker 1874 - 1951

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Joseph Christian Leyendecker
  • Study for Butterfly Couple
  • oil on canvas
  • 17 by 13 inches
  • (43.2 by 33 cm)
  • Painted in 1923.

Provenance

Mrs. Stone, Queens, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1972

Exhibited

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Old Corner House Museum, The Illustrator's Moment, July-October 1978
New York, Grand Cental Art Galleries, American Illustrators-The Twenties-Adventure, Suspense, Romance, and Humor, May 1979
Chicago, Illinois, Union League Club, An American Vision, December 1984, illustrated pl. 14, p. 10
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Art and Fashion: From Marie Antoinette to Jacqueline Kennedy, May-August 2006, p. 45, illustrated in color

Literature

Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. 60, illustrated in color p. 61