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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
ALBERT PELS (1910 - 1998)
Scarecrow. Oil on canvas. 1640x407 mm; 64½x16 inches. Signed lower center.
Provenance Estate of the artist. Thence by descent to the current owner.
Bears fragment of a Salmagundi Club exhibition label on frame verso.
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 Wilmington Post Office, Landing of the Swedes at the Rocks in Wilmington, Wilmington, Delaware. Later moved to the Rodney Square Station Post Office, Wilmington, Delaware.
