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Lot 783

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(South Carolina, 1883-1979)

Flower Seller, signed lower right "Elizabeth O'Neill Verner", inscribed verso "Hagar Mazyck 1964" and faintly in pencil "Sold/Miss Cornelia Love", pastel on silk on board, 19 x 14-1/2 in.; gold painted wood frame, 20 x 15 in.

Provenance: Miss Cornelia Love, possibly from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (inscription); Private Collection, Charleston, South Carolina

Note:

The inscription may refer to the subject, a resident of Mt. Pleasant named Hagar Mazyck who was born in September 1913. Records name her father as Charles Mazyck, who was 39 when she was born and her mother, Margaret Oree, was 36. She died on 1 December 2014, at the age of 101.

Condition

foxing, signature faded, board glued into frame therefore not examined out of frame; frame with some wear