Sep 22, 2022 - Sale 2614

Sale 2614 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
EDWIN WALTER DICKINSON
Nude, Head First, Prone.

Pencil on cream wove paper, 1920. 268x204 mm; 10 1/2x8 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed in pencil, upper right recto, and initialed, dated and inscribed "Paris" in pencil, verso.

Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. Howard E. Wise, Pennsylvania; private collection, New York.

Exhibited: Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 1974; "Edwin Dickinson Retrospective," Provincetown Art Association and Museum, August 14-September 7, 1976.

Published: Baldwin, The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné, number 669.

Dickinson (1891-1978) settled in Paris in 1920, where he often made sketches at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, like the current work.