Lot 616
  • 616

The Reading Artist

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • The Reading Artist
  • SAHRA REAM
  • Watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper
  • 9 1/8 by 6 5/8 in.
  • dated 1845
Inscribed (translated from German) recto, ink: Sahra Ream/ 1845/ in the fourth year of life

Provenance

Art and Mary Feeman, Jonestown, Pennsylvania
Art Feeman Jr., Jonestown, Pennsylvania
Pennypacker Auction Center, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 1981, lot 632

Literature

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, p. 68, fig. 37

Condition

Minor stain at extreme top and bottom borders.
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