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Lot 361
Description:
Marie Atkinson Hull (American/Mississippi, 1890-1980), "Pigeons", 1954, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, pencil titled and with exhibition label en verso, 29 7/8 in. x 20 in., in a period frame.
- Provenance: Provenance : Descended in the family of noted Mississippi art collector Bitsy Irby, a close friend and patron of Marie Hull. Illustrated: Malcolm Norwood, et.al., The Art of Marie Hull, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1975, p. 57 Note: Mississippi artist Marie Hull had a great love of birds from early childhood. Subsequently, they appear as a common theme in her representational paintings. Flamingoes, macaws, crows, and in the case of the work offered here, pigeons, were some of the birds she chose to depict. "Pigeons" is an important transitional work in Hull's oeuvre, showing her moving from a more traditional realistic style to the abstract modernism which defines her later work. The compositional relationship of color and design seem precedent over her choice of subject matter.
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June 25, 2011 10:00 AM CDT
New Orleans, LA, US
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