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Modern Art, Design + Craft | October 10, 2024

Thu, Oct 10, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 97

Alice Baber, Dark Leap to Light

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

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(New York/Illinois, 1928-1982) 

abstract composition, 1976, signed upper left "Baber 76", signed and titled twice verso canvas, oil on canvas, 35-7/8 x 74 in.; lattice type frame, 36-3/4 x 75-1/2 x 1-1/2 in.

Provenance: Alice Baber (1928–1982), New York, New York; purchased by David R. Baker, Birmingham, Alabama, 1980; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art; Property of the Birmingham Museum of Art sold to benefit the Baker Acquisition Fund

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Alice Baber (1928–1982), New York, New York; purchased by David R. Baker, Birmingham, Alabama, 1980; by bequest to the Birmingham Museum of Art; Property of the Birmingham Museum of Art sold to benefit the Baker Acquisition Fund

original stretcher, small tear lower right repaired and retouched by Elizabeth Sanchez, Asheville, North Carolina