Feb 16, 2023 - Sale 2626

Sale 2626 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

ALBERT PELS (1910-1998)


The Street Entertainers.
Oil on canvas, 1984. Signed, Pels, and dated, 84, lower right. 508x1117 mm; 20x44 inches.

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.