$8,000
Portrait of a Woman Wearing an Olive Green Dress with a White Lace Ruff. Unsigned. Oil on panel, depicting a bust-length portrait of the dark brown-haired woman with ringlets over her ears, seated before a column and red drapery with a landscape visible in the distance, 21 x 16 3/4 in., in a 20th century molded wood frame. Condition: Very minor lines of paint loss in wood graining. Provenance: Ex collection, Mary Allis, Southport, Connecticut. Literature: This portrait is illustrated in American Country: FOLK ART. Created by Rebus, Inc., published by Time-Life Books, 1990, p. 150, also illustrated in the article "Folk Art in Festive Dress," House Beautiful, December 1986, Volume 128, number 12, p. 45. some minor inpaint near bow, otherwise as catalogued.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-02-19