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Property from the Estate of Angela Gross Folk

Frank Weston Benson

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.