Lot 38
  • 38

John Sloan

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • John Sloan
  • Girl Dressing
  • inscribed John Sloan per HFS and dated 1914 (lower right) and titled "Girl Dressing" (all in the hand of Helen Farr Sloan, the artist's wife)
  • red crayon on paper
  • 11 3/4 by 9 1/4 inches
  • (30 by 23.5 cm)
  • Executed circa 1914.

Provenance

Gallery 52, South Orange, New Jersey
Elizabeth Rosenstein, East Orange, New Jersey (sold: Christie's, New York, October 1, 1987, lot 218)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Condition

Work was not removed frame as edges show clearly and are intact. In fairly good condition; sheet appears to have darkened slightly (edges are lighter than rest of sheet); some soiling to surface: scattered staining/ foxing (the latter mostly along upper edge); sheet is archivally framed--hinged with pieces of white tape along the upper edge, verso
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