ERNEST FIENE (1894-1965)

Details
ERNEST FIENE (1894-1965)

Girl with Black Hat

signed Ernest Fiene, l.r. -- oil on canvas
24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ACA Galleries, New York
Literature
P. Hills and R.K. Tarbell, The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1980, fig.44.

Lot Essay

Although titled Girl with Black Hat on an old Whitney Museum labe attached to the back, it is believed that this painting is one of two portraits of Concetta Scaravaglione, the sculptor, executed by Fiene in 1926.