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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ALBERT PELS (1910-1998)
New Years Eve Celebration. Oil on canvas. 762x914 mm; 30x36 inches. Signed, Pels, 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 Willmington Post Office, Landing of the Swedes at the Rocks in Willmington, Willmington, Delaware. Later moved to the Rodney Square Station Post Office, Willmington, Delaware.
