From Daumier to Olitski: Select Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections

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Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

Ogden Minton Pleissner

The Arno, Florence

Lot Closed

September 23, 06:16 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

Ogden Minton Pleissner

1905 - 1983

The Arno, Florence

Signed Pleissner (lower right)

Oil on canvas

24¼ by 40 in. (61.6 by 101.6 cm)

Framed: 31 ½ by 47 ½ in. (80 by 120.6 cm)

Painted in 1949.

William Macbeth, New York

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (acquired from the above in 1951 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 21, 2003, lot 175)

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired at the above sale)

The William Louis Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York (gifted by the above in 2016)

William Hutton & Susan E. Stickler, Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, p. 91, illustrated p. 234

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1949, no. 3, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Art Students League, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1950, n.n.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Travelers in Arcadia: American Artists in Italy 1830-1875, 1951, no. 16