Sale 1359
New York
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8 April 2004
Price realised
USD 8,365
Estimate
AN ENGLISH MAHOGANY LINEN-PRESS THE CARCASS PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY AND REVENEERED AND EMBELLISHED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY The broken arched dentil-moulded pediment inset with foliate panels flanking a crest of a sheep upon a helmet, with a blind fret-carved frize and moulded cupboard doors with foliate clasps to the corners enclosing four slides, the base with brushing slide and three long drawers between canted fret-carved angles on shaped bracket feet, inscribed in white chalk 608WB 95½in. (243cm.) high, 51½in. (131cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep
Provenance
The Estate of the Late Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, Florham, New Jersey; Parke-Bernet Galleries, sold on the premises, 15-16 June 1955, lot 221 ($325).
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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