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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
MAURICE STERNE Balinese Women.
Oil pastels on paper mounted on board, 1912-14. 395x360 mm; 15 5/8x14 1/4 inches. Signed in pen and ink, lower right recto.
Provenance: Sold Sotheby's PB Eighty Four, New York to current owner, private collection, New York.
Sterne (1878-1957) was born in Libau, Latvia and traveled extensively, to New York in 1904 and then to Europe, Egypt, Burma, and Java, before returning to the United States in 1914. From 1918 to 1933, he alternated time between New York and Anticoli, Italy. Sterne's movements allowed him to explore different styles and subjects, never settling on an identity for long.
