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Lot Description

George Copeland Ault

(American, 1891-1948)

Japanese Iris

, 1930

watercolor on paper

signed G. C. Ault and dated (lower left); inscribed Wood Gaylor (lower left); inscribed (verso)

18 x 11 ¾ inches.

Property from the Estate of Joan Conway Crancer, St. Louis, Missouri

Provenance:
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York
Acquired directly from the above, 2002

Exhibited:
Huntington, New York, The Heckscher Museum, A Point of View, 20th Century American Art from a Long Island Collection, September 8 - November 4, 1990, no. 1, p. 24, illus.

Wood Gaylor was an artist who might have been given Japanese Iris by Ault.

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