The Zorach Family in a Landscape and Floral Still Life: A Double-Sided Painting

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MARGUERITE THOMPSON ZORACH (1887-1968)
The Zorach Family in a Landscape and Floral Still Life: A Double-Sided Painting
the front, signed 'M Zorach.' (lower right);
the reverse, signed and dated 'M. Zor/1916 (lower right)
oil on canvas
image, 23 3⁄4 x 19 in. (60.3 x 48.3 cm.);
overall, 28 x 23 1⁄4 in. (71.1 x 59.1 cm.)
the front, painted in 1915;
the reverse, painted in 1916.

Provenance

The artist.
Jesse Shapiro, New York, acquired from the above.
Estate of the above.
Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 1 February 1990, lot 303, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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Lot Essay

Marguerite Zorach painted the present family portrait in New Hampshire during the summer of 1915. The artist depicts herself holding son Tessim next to her standing husband, the artist William Zorach. William wrote, "That summer we painted. The pictures had greater depth, a sense of relation with the universe and with the lives of people. Unfortunately most of this work was ruined...only a very few paintings survived." (W. Zorach, Art is My Life, New York, 1967, p. 41)

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