Lot 16
  • 16

Oscar Bluemner

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Oscar Bluemner
  • Sigma Omega
  • titled with the Sigma and Omega symbols (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed (lower right); titled and annotated extensively (verso)
  • gouache on paper
  • 5 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches
  • (14 by 19.7 cm)
  • Executed in 1924.

Provenance

Pensler Gallery, Washington, DC, 1998
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Gouache on paper. Work is in generally good condition aside from losses to the upper and lower left corners (under the mat), a 3/4 inch horizontal tear at the center left edge, a 1/8 inch vertical tear at the lower center edge, and a few small spots of pigment loss at upper right corner.
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