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Wed, Jan 11, 2023 12:00PM EST
Lot 1035

Folk Art Portrait, Girl in Red

Estimate: $50,000 - $75,000

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$3,000 $250
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(American or Latin American School, 19th century)

A Well To Do Young Lady in a Red Dress, unsigned, circa 1840s, oil on canvas, 33 x 26-1/2 in.; period carved gilt wood frame, 40-1/2 x 33 in.

Note: Young Lady in a Red Dress hung in the Osofsky family home for decades.  No specific artist or sitter were ever referred to, but the painting  was always referred to as Creole. No documentaion has been found to support this or any other attribution, and  the origin of both painter and sitter remains a mystery.

Condition

wax lined, areas of retouch,

From the Collection of Alice Osofsky