Frederick Carl Frieseke

Girl at the Writing Desk

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October 4, 04:50 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Midwestern Estate

Frederick Carl Frieseke

1874 - 1939

Girl at Writing Desk

signed F.C. Frieseke and dated -27 (lower left); signed again (on the lower tacking edge)

oil on canvas

29 ¾ by 32 in.

75.6 by 81.3 cm.

Executed in 1927.

Girl at Writing Desk is included in the draft Frieseke Catalogue Raisonné, compiled by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, with the support of the Hollis Taggart Galleries. That draft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Collects II, 1997