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Sylvia Fein
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Description
- Sylvia Fein
- The Lady and the White Knight
- Signed Sylvia and dated 1943 (lower right); inscribed November December (lower center); signed, titled and inscribed egg-oil (on the reverse)
- Egg tempera and ink on board
- 30 by 17 1/8 in.
- 76.2 by 43.5 cm
Provenance
Collection of the artist
Exhibited
Chicago, The Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, 1943, no. 43
New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1944 (titled The White Knight)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Québec, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, 2012-13, no. 28, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1944 (titled The White Knight)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Québec, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, 2012-13, no. 28, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Oakland, Krowswork, Sylvia Fein: Surreal Nature, 2014, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue
Literature
Chicago Daily News, April 10, 1943, illustrated
Condition
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