$12,600
Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection
Auction: June 4, 2023 3:00 PM EDT
Oil on canvas
13 x 10 1/8 in. (32 x 25.7cm)
Unframed.
Provenance
The Artist.
A gift from the above.
Collection of Helene and Carey Bok.
By descent in the Boerste family (the sitter's wife's family), Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania.
Private Estate, Pennsylvania.
Note
Carey Bok was the grandson of Cyrus Curtis (Curtis Publishing Co.) and the son of Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who founded the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Carey was Executive Vice President at Curtis Publishing and Treasurer at the Institute. This portrait hung in his mother-in-law's house in Chestnut Hill.