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MARCH 2024 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 150:
Acrylic on canvas by Alma Thomas, African-American artist. Titled: "Spring Flowers at Night", dated ’69.
Signed on the verso: Alma W. Thomas, 1530 15th St., N.W. Wash., D.C. TOP; Acrylic, 32" x 36.
Provenance: purchased by the current owner from a private collector/dealer in Spain, it was previously owned by a private individual from Washington, DC.
Footnote: Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after her retirement from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington’s Shaw Junior High School.
32 x 36 in., (81.3 x 91.5 cm.)
Condition: Very good.
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