Lot 39
  • 39

Lilla Cabot Perry

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Lilla Cabot Perry
  • The Scent of Roses
  • signed L.C. Perry (upper left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 39 1/2 by 29 1/2 inches
  • (100.5 by 75 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Hall Galleries, Inc., Dallas
David David, Inc., Philadelphia
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
John H. Surovek, Palm Beach
Sale:  Christie's, New York, December 4, 1992, lot 30
acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Boston, Copley Gallery, An Exhibition of Portraits and Other Picture by Lilla Cabot Perry, 1911, no. 40 (as Girl and Roses)
Boston, Guild of Boston Artists, An Exhibition of Paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, 1931, no. 11
Boston, Guild of Boston Artists, A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, 1934, no. 9 (as Girl with Roses)
Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Lilly Cabot Perry:  An American Impressionist, September, 1990 - January, 1991, no. 52, pl. 40, illustrated (as Roses)
Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, October 1991 - May 1992, p. 17, 28, illustrated

Literature

A.J. Philpot, Boston Globe, March 1931

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: figure is clean; a few minor dots/dashes in the background and a few on the rose petals at upper right
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