Lot 59
  • 59

Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses
  • Sugaring Time
  • signed Grandma Moses/© (lower right); also dated June 4, 1954, numbered 1633 and titled Sugaring Time (on an original Grandma Moses label affixed to the reverse;(copyright reserved to Grandma Moses Properties, New York)
  • oil and glitter on Masonite
  • 18 by 24 inches
  • (45.7 by 61 cm)

Provenance

Hammer Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1970s

Exhibited

European traveling exhibition, Vienna, Paris, Bremen, Hamburg, Hameln, Fulda, Düsseldorf, Darmstadt, Mannheim, Berlin, Frankfurt, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Göteborg, Copenhagen, Moscow, A Life's History in 40 Pictures, 1963-1964
Elkhart, Indiana, Midwest Museum of American Art, Panorama of American Art: Permanent Collection to Present, May-July 1979
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, A Century of Caring, May-October 1986, no. 27
Elkhart, Indiana, Midwest Museum of American Art (on loan)

Literature

Artist's record book, p. 53
Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, no. 1144, p. 314, illustrated 

Condition

There are a few pindots of surface accretion in the sky at center and a 1 inch diagonal mark at upper left edge. There are two small specks of paint loss in the grey hillside to the right of the church. Under UV: there are a few specks of inpainting in the lower center sky.
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