Lot 55
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker 1874 - 1951

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Joseph Christian Leyendecker
  • Traffic Stop
  • signed with the artist's monogram JCL (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 21 inches
  • (71.1 by 53.3 cm)
  • Painted in 1922.

Provenance

Melvin and Alice Hayes, New Rochelle, New York, circa 1943 (acquired from the artist)
Gift to the present owner from the above, circa 1958

Literature

The Saturday Evening Post, June 24, 1922, illustrated on the cover
Michael Schau, J.C. Leyendecker, New York, 1974, illustrated p. 187
Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, illustrated p. 137