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Lot 13
Gertrude Abercrombie
(American, 1909-1977)
Eggs and Carnation
, 1955
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Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000
Price Realized
$137,500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Gertrude Abercrombie
(American, 1909-1977)
Eggs and Carnation
, 1955
oil on canvas
signed Abercrombie and dated (lower right)
20 x 28 inches.

Provenance:
The Artist
James Lichon, Chicago, acquired from the Artist
Thence by descent through the family
Sold: Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois, September 10, 2016, Lot 398
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners

Exhibited:
Chicago, Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, October 4 - 31, 1960, no. 5
Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Gertrude Abercrombie, A Retrospective Exhibition, January 28 - March 5, 1977, cat. no. 71 (with transposed dimensions 28 x 20 inches.)
Elmhurst, Illinois, Elmhurst Art Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, January 20 - March 4, 2018 (also traveled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, March 23 - June 15, 2018)
New York, Karma, Gertrude Abercrombie, August 9 - September 23, 2018

Literature:
Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 389; 485, illus.
Hilton Als, Helen Molesworth, David Rimanelli, (Nothing but) Flowers, New York, 2022, p. 43, illus.
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