$12,600
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection
Auction: June 4, 2023 3:00 PM EDT
Signed 'EMMA FORDYCE MAC RAE' upper left; also signed verso and inscribed with title and artist on stretcher verso; also with several 'The Estate of Emma Fordyce MacRae' stamps verso, oil on burlap
28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9cm)
Provenance
The Artist.
The Estate of the Artist.
By descent in the family of the Artist.
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Exhibited
"Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974," Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, March 1-July 20, 2008.
Literature
Emma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. 1887-1974, an exhibition catalogue, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, 2008, p. 24, fig. 28 (illustrated).
Note
Emma Fordyce MacRae produced smaller still life paintings aside from her figure portraits. While her earlier compositions, such as Lot 104, are still very much impressionistic in execution and palette as they displayed broad brushstrokes of bright color throughout the board, Spring illustrates the artist's later choice of a plain background in order to enhance the contrast with the still life, here a single type of flower which further positions it as the sole subject of the painting.
Proceeds from the sale of this painting will go directly to Alzheimer's Research UK, Britain's leading dementia research charity, to fund further research into Alzheimer's and dementia-related diseases.