$2,100
American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Green Dress. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, c. 1830, depicting the blond-haired girl standing outside a doorway, to her right is a landscape with the sea in the distance, in her hand she holds two pink rose buds, 30 x 25 in., in a period, grain painted wood frame with gilt liner. Condition: Relined, scattered retouch. Provenance: Ex collection Otto Wasserman, New York City. Exhibited: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, By and for the People: American Folk Art From a Private Collection, October 3rd -November 14th 1976, retaining exhibition label. Literature: This painting is illustrated in American Country: FOLK ART. Created by Rebus, Inc., published by Time-Life Books, 1990, p. 154. reouch to craquelure spaces on head, dress, arms, legs and background.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19
