Florence Henri
(American, 1893-1982)
Untitled
, 1923
Sale 1057 - American & European Art
Sep 27, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
Florence Henri
(American, 1893-1982)
Untitled
, 1923oil on board
signed F. Henri and dated (lower left)
10 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches.
Lot note:
Though more often remembered today for her avant-garde photography, Florence Henri began her artistic career as a painter. In the early 1920s, she studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, and then at the Académie Moderne in Paris under Fernand Léger. Her early compositions revel in the material double entendres of Cubism. In the present lot, for example, the body of the abstracted mandolin is not painted in trompe l’oeil. Rather, Henri has revealed the painting’s wood panel and allows it to be both literally wood and the representation of wood. Conversely, she has painted one of her initials, a letter F, as though it were printed on a piece of paper and collaged to the paint surface.
Condition Report
Framed: 12 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches.
Minor deposits of surface dirt and dust; small area of localized paint loss along center left edge; one pinpoint paint loss in upper center, within brown field; pinpoint white stains in center and lower center, within the green and brown fields, which may be inherent to the artwork; one vertical frame abrasion along extreme lower center edge, no greater in length than 1/2 inch. Under UV light, no apparent inpainting is visible. Additional images available upon request.
Minor deposits of surface dirt and dust; small area of localized paint loss along center left edge; one pinpoint paint loss in upper center, within brown field; pinpoint white stains in center and lower center, within the green and brown fields, which may be inherent to the artwork; one vertical frame abrasion along extreme lower center edge, no greater in length than 1/2 inch. Under UV light, no apparent inpainting is visible. Additional images available upon request.
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