Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 379

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PEIRCE, WALDO. Group of 7 drawings, including 3 Signed, "WP" or "W Pierce," each a small ink and watercolor sketch on a postcard or envelope addressed to Midtown Galleries founder Alan D. Gruskin or Harvard Club. Oblong 12mo or 4x9 1/2 inches; condition generally good. Vp, 1941-62 [from postmarks]

Additional Details

11 April 1941: With a caption in unknown hand: "Nude in Stable by Waldo Peirce. Acquired by Metr. Museum of Fine Arts as a Result of a Public Conscription."
15 October 1956: Showing fishwives in 18th-century dress standing behind tables of their wares, Signed and with the holograph caption: "WP / Seaport Mass / Say it with eels."