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Lot 124
Edith London (NC, 1904-1997), Floating
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Mixed media collage on paper, signed and dated 1997 at lower right, retaining several labels to the verso, mounted and framed under glass.

Image 9.25 x 12 in.; DOA 21.5 x 21 in.

From the Collection of Mr. Jonathan P. Alcott, Raleigh, NC

Gallery C, Raleigh, NC

Exhibited:
Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, Virginia, June 20 - October 18, 2014 (illustrated in the accompanying catalogue). This exhibition traveled to the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC, September 10 - December 4, 2016.

Born in Berlin, Edith London and her husband left Germany in 1933 where she continued her art studies at Oxford and the Academie Andre Lhote in Paris. After her husband's death in 1954, Edith immigrated to the United States, settling in Durham where she accepted a teaching position at Duke.

Very good estate condition; not examined out of the frame.

$500 - 1,000