Sep 19, 2024 - Sale 2678

Sale 2678 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CECIL C. BELL (1906-1970)
Lydia (in John Sloan's Class).

Watercolor and pencil on paper, circa 1934. 205x139 mm; 8⅛x5½ inches. Signed, titled and illegibly dated "11/11/3-" in pencil, lower right, and inscribed "Lydia in John Sloan's Studio, 1934" in pencil, verso. With the artist's blindstamp lower left and lower center.

Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Private collection, Nashville.

Additional Details

Bell studied under John Sloan at the Art Students League, New York alongside husband and wife artists Don Freeman and Lydia Cooley in the 1930s.