Apr 06, 2017 - Sale 2442

Sale 2442 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ALMA W. THOMAS (1891 - 1978)
Untitled (Orange and Burgundy Composition).

Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 1967. 127x191 mm; 5x7 1/2 inches. Signed in blue ink, lower right.

Provenance: gift from the artist, Scott Kirkpatrick, Washington, DC (1967); thence by descent to the current owner, private collection, Delaware. Scott Kirkpatrick was the manager of the National Theatre in the 1960s and 70s, and a close friend of Alma Thomas, an avid theater goer in the late 1960s.