Mar 06, 2025 - Sale 2696

Sale 2696 - Lot 54

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GEORGE BELLOWS (1882 - 1925)
Portrait of Elsie Speicher.

Charcoal on paper, circa 1921. 176x151 mm; 6⅞x6 inches.

Provenance
D. Ives, Woodstock, New York (inscription verso).
Private collection, New York.

Additional Details

Elsie Speicher was the wife of artist Eugene Speicher, whom George Bellows befriended while studying at the Art Students League in New York. Emma Bellows, the artist's wife and Elsie became close friends. Elsie was the subject of several of Bellows' portraits and lithographs.