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Lot 10

Alton Pickens
(1917-1991)
Children Playing 3 1/2 x 5 1/2in (8.9 x 14cm)

29 July 2020, 16:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$4,450 inc. premium

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Alton Pickens (1917-1991)

Children Playing
signed with artist's initials and dated 'AP / 4-44' (lower right) and signed again (on the reverse)
oil on panel
3 1/2 x 5 1/2in (8.9 x 14cm)
Painted in 1944.

Footnotes

Provenance
Buchholz Gallery / Curt Valentin, New York, by 1946.
William Slattery Lieberman, New York.
Estate of the above, 2005.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.

Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Fourteen Americans, September 10-December 8, 1946, p. 79, loan no. 46.1465.

The present work was once in the collection of William Slattery Lieberman (1923-2005), a legendary and influential museum curator who held positions at both the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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