Lot 31
  • 31

Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses 1860-1961

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses
  • Visitors
  • signed MOSES. © (lower right); also titled Visitors, dated Sept 1959 and numbered 1898 on an original Grandma Moses label affixed to the reverse (Copyright reserved to Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York)
  • oil and glitter on masonite
  • 16 by 24 inches
  • (40.6 by 61 cm)

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner, circa 1990

Literature

The Artist's Record Book, no. 1898, p. 85
Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1944, no. 1415, illustrated p. 322

Condition

Very good condition. Surface dirt including a few scattered streaks of dirt in center top sky and other smudges in lower left quadrant. Under UV: no apparent inpainting.
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