Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHARLES ELMER HARRIS (BENI E. KOSH) (1917 - 1993)
Three Surreal paintings.

Studio "B," oil on canvas board, circa 1957. 508x406 mm; 20x16 inches. Signed and titled in oil, lower right * Composition # 28, oil on Bainbridge board, 1952. 305x203 mm; 12x8 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right * Composition #402, oil on Bainbridge board, 1957. 514x381 mm; 20 1/4x15 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Each numbered in ink, with the artist's ink stamp "Beni Kosh Collection" on the verso.

Provenance: Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Shaker Heights, OH; John Axelrod, Boston (2000); the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2011).