Lot 76
  • 76

Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses
  • Sugaring Off
  • signed Moses. (lower right); titled Sugaring Off, dated Aug. 8, 1942 and numbered 238 (on an original artist's label affixed to the backing with copyright reserved to Grandma Moses Properties, New York)
  • tempera and glitter over traces of pencil on board
  • 19 1/8 by 23 inches
  • (48.6 by 58.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1942.

Provenance

Hammer Galleries, New York

Literature

Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, no. 165, p. 289, illustrated

Condition

In good condition; slight fading from light to the surface. UNDER UV: Dots and dashes of inpainting in the sky and along edges.
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Catalogue Note

Lot 76 is illustrated as the front cover of this catalogue.