Sold for $375,000

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Lot Description

Gertrude Abercrombie

(American, 1909-1977)

Self and Cat (Possims)

, 1953

oil on canvas

signed Abercrombie and dated (lower left)

34 x 24 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:
Collection of Douglas Elliot
Sold: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, December 15, 2003, Lot 1
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners

Exhibited:
Chicago, Newman Brown Gallery, Gertrude Abercrombie, September 1953
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Fifty-seventh Annual Exhibition, November 12 - December 13, 1953 (label verso, omitted from exhibition catalogue)
Chicago, Irv Benjamin's Restaurant, 1954, no. 4
Chicago, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Gertrude Abercrombie, March 18 - May 17, 1991 (also traveled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, July 28 - October 15, 1991), pp. 76; 93, illus.
Elmhurst, Illinois, Elmhurst Art Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie: Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape, January 20 - March 4, 2018 (also travelled to Springfield, Illinois State Museum, March 23 - June 15, 2018)

Literature:
Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston, Studs Terkel, Gertrude Abercrombie, New York, 2018, pp. 351; 485, illus.

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