Sep 22, 2022 - Sale 2614

Sale 2614 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALFRED H. MAURER
Young Girl in Blue.

Tempera and gesso on board, circa 1918. 667x453 mm; 26 1/4x17 7/8 inches. Signed in tempera, lower right recto, and signed with the artist's address in crayon, verso.

Provenance: Private collection, New York.

Maurer (1868-1932) was born in New York, the son of German-born lithographer, and collaborated early on with his father before studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase during the mid-1890s. He went on to become a leading American avant-garde painter, as evinced by this modern portrait, an early predecessor to his so-called "Girl" series of paintings.