Description:
E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (American, 1894-1962)
Portrait of Marion Moore
Unsigned, identified as "from E.E. Cummings Collection" on a label from
Luethi-Peterson Camps affixed to the paper backing. Oil on canvas laid on board, sight size 15 x 11 1/2 in. (38.1 x 29.2 cm),framed.
Condition: Canvas mounted to board, with window mat affixed around all four sides.
Provenance: Luethi-Peterson Camps to a private collector, to Grogan & Company, Dedham, Massachusetts, November 11, 2000, Lot 42; to a private New England collection.
N.B. Marion Moore was E.E. Cummings's first wife.
Estimate $600-800
Pinhole sized puncture/loss to center right edge.
Printed label on the frame backing paper says that the work was donated to Luethi-Peterson Camps from the E. E. Cummings Collection in 1969.
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