Lot 58
  • 58

Helen Torr 1886 - 1967

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Helen Torr
  • Dead Leaves and Letter (1819)
  • stamped Torr: Estate of Helen Torr, l.r.
  • tempera and ink on paper
  • 7 by 10 in.
  • (17.8 by 25.4 cm)
  • Executed in 1938.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
James Graham & Sons, New York

Exhibited

New York, James Graham & Sons, Helen Torr, January-February 1998
New York, James Graham & Sons, America on Paper: Perspectives on People and Places by American Masters, November-December 2000
Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum of Art; New York, James Graham & Sons; Chicago, Illinois, The Terra Museum of American Art; Annapolis, Maryland, The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Out of the Shadows: Helen Torr, A Retrospective, February-October 2003, pp. 36, 52, illustrated in color p. 36

Condition

Very good condition. Under UV: a few small dots of retouch along top edge. Unframed: affixed to the mat in five places along the edges of the reverse.
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