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Lot Description

George Luks

(American, 1867-1933)

Mercedes in a Satin Dress

, 1933

oil on canvas

signed George Luks (lower right)

20 x 16 inches.

Property from the Collection of Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth, Atlanta, Georgia

Provenance:
The artist

Alfredo Valente, New York

By descent through the family
Owen Gallery, New York
Debra Force Fine Art, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owners, 2002

Exhibited:

New York, ACA Galleries, George Luks, Retrospective Exhibition, November 27 - December 23, 1967, no. 46

Kinderhook, New York, Columbia Historical Society, After Church: Artists in Mid-twentieth Century Columbia County, New York, June 20 - August 31, 1997
Auburn, Alabama, Auburn University, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn Collects: The Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth Collection, March 13 - May 21, 2004, pl. 18, pp. 34-37, illus.

Literature:

Ruth Piwonka, Tom Wolf, and Michael Urbaitis, After Church: Artists in Mid-twentieth Century Columbia County, New York, Kinderhook, New York, 1997, p. 12, illus.

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