Alma Thomas

Pinks of Cherry Blossoms

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Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Potomac

Alma Thomas

(1891 - 1978)

Pinks of Cherry Blossoms

signed and dated ’70 (lower right); signed, titled and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

48 ⅛ by 48 ⅛ in.

122.2 by 122.2 cm.

Executed in 1970.

Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Acquired from the above in March 1984 by the present owner

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, A Life in Art: Alma Thomas, 1891–1978, November 1981 - February 1982, no. 15, p. 55 (text) (titled Pink of Cherry Blossoms)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem (and traveling), Alma Thomas, 2016, p. 223, illustrated in color (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, n.d.)