Jun 10, 2004 - Sale 2009

Sale 2009 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 6,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS
Portrait of the Artist's Wife.

Oil on canvas mounted on board, 1937. 450x304 mm; 16x12 inches. Dated in ink, verso. Ex-collection Marion Morehouse, the artist's wife.

Cummings is best known as poet and writer E.E. Cummings. From 1919 until around 1925 he considered himself primarily a painter until later becoming a well-known, published poet.