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CARL SPRINCHORN Still Life (Basket of English Pansies).
Watercolor and gouache over pencil on light tan wove paper. 475x615 mm; 18 3/4x24 1/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection New Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.
Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971) studied with Robert Henri in New York from 1903 until 1910 and then traveled to Paris for a year, 1912, to study at the Académie Colarossi.
His early modern subjects, before he sought out the figures and scenery of Maine, included Parisian city scenes, theater, dance halls, and cafes, similar to Night--Copenhagen, watercolor (lot 219). Later, in Maine, Sprinchorn befriended Marsden Hartley, who greatly respected his work, and helped him to attempt a "comeback" to his modernist beginnings.
