Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2535BLocation: BostonDate / Time: January 28, 2011 12:00PM
Description:
Alexander Pope (American, 1849-1924)
Head of a Male Lion
Signed and dated "ALEXANDER POPE 9..." l.r., with a label from Foster Brothers Art
Store, Boston, on the back of the frame.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. (61.0 x 51.0 cm),in a frame with wooden bars affixed to the front.
Condition: Tears to upper corners, surface grime.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
The painting was not removed from the frame, and the frame liner obscurred the date, which may read "97."