Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld
Christ with orchids
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 17, 12:42 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld
1878 - 1973
Christ with orchids
signed Boris Anisfeld, dated 1950 (upper right), and indistinctly incised with the signature (lower left); signed Boris Anisfeld (on the reverse)
oil on board
76 by 71 cm. 30 by 28 in.
Framed: 93 by 88 cm. 36½ by 34½ in.
Executed in 1950.
Mary Christine Liberatore, New York
Acquired from the estate of the above in 2021 by the present owner
Mary Christine Liberatore was a New York art dealer with a large private collection amassed over many decades. Together with her uncle Leonard Clayton she opened and ran the Clayton-Liberatore Gallery in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York, which represented major twentieth-century American and European artists.