$5,355
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Collection of Charles and Virginia Bowden
Auction: December 4, 2022 2:00 AM EDT
Sined '-John Sloan-' bottom left, oil on board laid down to Masonite
13 x 19 1/8 in. (33 x 48.6cm)
Executed circa 1933.
Provenance
The Artist.
(Possibly) a gift from the above.
Collection of Mr. Stratton.
Christie's, New York, sale of March 2, 2006, lot 160 (as Woman with Head on Hand).
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Collection of Charles and Virginia Bowden, San Antonio, Texas.
Literature
Rowland Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Part II, University of Delaware Press, Newark; and Associated University Presses, London and Toronto, 1991, no. 959, p. 344 (illustrated).
Note
The model presented here appears to be Gitel Kahn. According to Elzea, "although her hair is unfashionably long for 1933, that date has been assigned because of Sloan's use of heavy, almost romantic shadows in some of his work of 1933, which he abandoned in other works of the same year, and later.