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PROPERTY FROM THE LOUIS-DREYFUS FAMILY COLLECTIONS
Bill Traylor (circa 1853-1949)
Exciting Event with Snake, 1939-1942
Details
Bill Traylor (circa 1853-1949)
Exciting Event with Snake, 1939-1942
signed Bill Traylor upper edge; bears two labels on reverse: Figures Construction and H-61 Brown Snake, Man, Woman, Dog
colored pencil and graphite on repurposed card
13 ½ x 14 in.
Exciting Event with Snake, 1939-1942
signed Bill Traylor upper edge; bears two labels on reverse: Figures Construction and H-61 Brown Snake, Man, Woman, Dog
colored pencil and graphite on repurposed card
13 ½ x 14 in.
Provenance
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 2000 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections by inheritance from the above in 2016
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 2000 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collections by inheritance from the above in 2016
Literature
Valerie Rousseau and Debra Purden, Bill Traylor (New York and Milan, 2018), p. 132.
Exhibited
Dallas Museum of Art, Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art, 3 December 1989 - 25 February 1990.
Brought to you by
Cara Zimmerman