Sale 1359
New York
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8 April 2004
Price realised
USD 10,755
Estimate
A DECALCOMANIA VASE MOUNTED AS A LAMP 19TH CENTURY The white ground decorated with birds, insects and flowers intersperced with cartouches of oriental scenes on a later giltwood plinth, electrified, restoration to painted background The vase 17in. (43cm.) high
Provenance
with Mallett, Mallett, London.
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Offered to benefit a new scholarship initiative from Bennington College, this work distils the unique form of abstraction for which the artist would become famous
Ahead of the sale of portraits of four different muses, we focus on the women the artist came to depend on so passionately