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Mara McAfee

Marvelous Modern Mechanical Men

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Mara McAfee

1929 - 1984

Marvelous Modern Mechanical Men

signed and dated ‘63 (lower right); titled (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

60 by 47 ¾ in.

162.4 by 128.3 cm.

Executed in 1963.

Amel Gallery, New York

Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired from the above in 1963)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Saul Ostrow, “Reconfiguring Pop,” Art in America, 8 September 2010, illustrated in color (online)

Philadelphia, University of the Arts, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery; Lincoln, Sheldon Museum of Art; New York, Brooklyn Museum and Medford, Tufts University Art Gallery, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, January 2010 - April 2011