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Description:
Lajos Szalay (Hungarian, 1919-1995)
Three Ink Drawings: Two Nude Figures; Christ Crucified and the Apocalypse; and Three Mid-century Figures. All signed "Szalay" in the margins, Apocalypse dated "1945," Modern Figures dated "'57." Sight sizes to 14 x 20 1/2 in., framed. Condition: Toning, not examined out of frames.
Provenance: Collection of philanthropist Dorothy C. Wallace, Brookline, Massachusetts, by descent, to Estate of Dr. James Woodward Wallace, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Estimate $300-500
Dorothy C. Wallace was Mrs. Richard H. Wallace. Her papers are archived in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe (Harvard University).
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James Woodward Wallace, Dorothy C. Wallace, Brookline, CambridgeSuhyung Kim
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