Sylvia Sleigh
Persephone: Jane Henry
Auction Closed
May 15, 11:34 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sylvia Sleigh
1916 - 2010
Persephone: Jane Henry
signed and dated Jun 1987 (center left)
oil on canvas
50 by 20 ¼ in.
127 by 51.4 cm.
Executed in 1987.
Zaks Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Milwaukee Art Museum; Muncie, Ball State University Art Gallery and Youngstown, Butler Institute of American Art, Sylvia Sleigh: Invitation to a Voyage and Other Works, March - October 1990, pp. 27 and 32, illustrated
New York, Levy Gorvy Dayan, The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, April - June 2025
Julia Halperin, "Ready for Their Reboot: How Galleries Plumb Art History’s Forgotten Talent," The New York Times, 4 June 2025, illustrated in color (online)
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