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Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk
Red and White Peonies
Lot Closed
July 20, 02:17 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk
Frank Weston Benson
1862 - 1951
Red and White Peonies
signed F. W. Benson and dated '23 (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paperboard
16 ¾ by 20 ¾ in.
42.5 by 52.7 cm.
Executed in 1923.
The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston (consigned by the artist)
Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, Newport, Rhode Island (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the Estate of the above circa 1989 by the present owner
This work is accompanied by a letter from Bruce W. Chambers, Ph.D. at Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. in New York. It is listed as no. 174 in a list of watercolors compiled by Frank Benson, now part of the Benson Papers at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts.