Jun 09, 2016 - Sale 2418

Sale 2418 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 3,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LENA GURR
New York at Dusk.

Oil on masonite, circa 1935. 916x1218 mm; 36x48 inches. Signed in black oil, lower right recto. Inscribed "Lena Gurr Dusk" in black ink, verso.

Another version of this composition, by Gurr's husband Joseph Biel, is illustrated in "New York City WPA Art Then 1934-1943 and Now 1960-1977," New York, 1977, page 96.