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Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses

Christmas Trees

Auction Closed

May 19, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses

1860 - 1961

Christmas Trees


signed MOSES.© (lower right); also dated April 29, 1955, numbered 1678 and titled The Christmas Trees on an original Grandma Moses label affixed to the reverse (copyright reserved to Grandma Moses Properties, New York)

tempera and glitter on Masonite

18 by 24 inches

(45.7 by 61 cm)

Painted in 1955.

The artist
Galerie St. Etienne, New York
Hammer Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1970
Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, New York, 1973, no. 1189, pp. 209, 315, illustrated
New York, IBM Gallery, A Tribute to Grandma Moses, November-December 1955, no. 42
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Grandma Moses: Memorial Exhibition, November-December 1962, no. 42
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, Grandma Moses, January 1990
Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum; Osaka, Japan, Daimaru Museum; Kyoto, Japan, Daimaru Museum; Funabashi, Japan, Funabashi Art Forum; Yokohama, Japan, Takashimaya Museum, Grandma Moses: In Commemoration of the 130th Anniversary of Birth, July-November 1990, no. 53