Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

ALBERT PELS (1910 - 1998)


Untitled, (Family).
Oil on canvas. 762x915 mm; 30x36 inches. Signed lower right.

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 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.