Modern Discoveries
Modern Discoveries
Property from a Private Collection, Virginia
Walt Kuhn
Ruth with Green Headcloth (Red Lips)
Lot Closed
March 16, 05:28 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Virginia
Walt Kuhn
1877 - 1949
Ruth with Green Headcloth (Red Lips)
oil on canvas
signed Walt Kuhn and dated 1927 (upper right)
15 by 12 in.
38 by 30 cm.
Executed in 1927.
Salandar-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Maine
Christie's New York, 26 May 1988, lot 334A (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 22 September 2015, lot 74 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Philip Rhys Adams, Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work, Columbus, Ohio, 1978, no. 204, p. 252
The sitter is Ruth Lloyd-Jones, a local waitress near artist's home in Maine.