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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
THOMAS SILLS (1914 - 2000) She.
Oil on linen canvas, 1965, 1016x762 mm; 40x30 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Also signed, titled, dated and inscribed "40x30" on the artist's handwritten labels stapled to the stretcher bars.
Provenance: private collection.
In the 1960s, Thomas Sills showed with Bodley Gallery, New York. He was also the subject of solo exhibitions at Creighton University, Omaha, NE in and the Art Association of Newport, RI. In 1965, his painting Landlocked, 1960, was exhibited in Recent Acquistions: Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Another Sills painting from 1965, Green Delta is in the collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
