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Property of a Private Collector

Gertrude Abercrombie

Peanuts

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Gertrude Abercrombie

1909 - 1977


Peanuts

signed Abercrombie and dated '54 (lower left)

oil on Masonite

4 ¼ by 5 ½ in.

10.8 by 14 cm.

Executed in 1954.


We are grateful for the research conducted by Susan Weininger, Professor Emerita, Roosevelt University. 

Private Collection, Chicago (acquired directly from the artist in 1956)

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, 7 September 2008, lot 103 (as Nuts)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Karma, Gertrude Abercrombie, 2018, p. 370, illustrated in color