Untitled (Abstraction)

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Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956)
Untitled (Abstraction)
signed and dated 'Blanche Lazzell, 1924' (lower right)
gouache on paper laid down on paperboard
9 ½ x 8 ½ in. (24.1 x 21.6 cm.)

Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Martin Diamond Fine Arts, Inc., New York.
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

The present work is a study for an oil painting entitled Peinture in the collection of West Virginia University, where Blanche Lazzell received a fine arts degree in 1905. Executed in 1924, this work is one of the first nonobjective paintings by a female American artist.

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