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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ALBERT PELS (1910 - 1998)
Puppet Show in the Park. Oil on canvas. 508x432 mm; 20x17 inches. Signed, Pels, lower left. Inscribed as titled on verso.
Provenance: Estate of the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
Funded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, Albert Pels completed the following two murals: Normal, Illinois Post Office, Development of the State Normal School, 1938; U.S. Courtroom of the Willmington Post Office, Landing of the Swedes at the Rocks in Willmington, Willminton, Delaware. Later moved to the Rodney Square Station Post Office, Willmington, Delaware.
