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LEON KELLY | WINTER BIRD

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May 20, 04:12 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

LEON KELLY (1901 - 1982)

WINTER BIRD


Signed Leon Kelly and dated 1945 (lower right); signed 'Leon Kelly' and dated 1945 (on the reverse)

Oil on canvas

15 by 9 in. (38.1 by 22.8 cm)

Framed: 20¼ by 14⅛ in. (51.4 by 36 cm)

Painted in 1945. 

Julien Levy, New York

Jean Levy, New York (by descent from the above and sold by the estate: Tajan, Paris, April 21, 2005, lot 314) 

Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago

Gallery of Surrealism, New York

Acquired from the above on October 18, 2005

Baltimore, International Gallery, Inc., Leon Kelly: Retrospective Exhibition, 1920-1964, 1965, no. 33