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Property from an Important Midwestern Estate
Girl at the Writing Desk
Lot Closed
October 4, 04:50 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Midwestern Estate
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874 - 1939
Girl at Writing Desk
signed F.C. Frieseke and dated -27 (lower left); signed again (on the lower tacking edge)
oil on canvas
29 ¾ by 32 in.
75.6 by 81.3 cm.
Executed in 1927.
Girl at Writing Desk is included in the draft Frieseke Catalogue Raisonné, compiled by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, with the support of the Hollis Taggart Galleries. That draft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art.
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner