$18,450
Charles Webster Hawthorne (American, 1872-1930) Flower Girl Signed faintly "Hawthorne" u. r., label from William Macbeth Gallery, New York, on verso. Oil on canvas laid down on panel, 22 x 18 in. (55.8 x 45.7 cm), framed. Condition: Canvas has been laid down on panel, surface has minor cracking with scattered retouch. Provenance: An estate from Maine and Pennsylvania. N.B. This lot is accompanied by the exhibition catalog The Paintings of Charles Hawthorne , published by the University of Connecticut Museum of Art, 1968. The model is possibly Sylvia Shaw, an American sculptor whose bronze Bird Girl was used as the cover illustration for the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-05-29
