Attributed to Esphyr Slobodkina, it does not have a COA. Medium: oil canvas, 23 x 19 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1908 - 2002. Married to abstract painter Ilya Bolotowsky in 1933, Esphyr Slobidkina was a textile designer of clearly defined stylized forms, illustrator, and painter in abstract style. She also created abstract collages, wrote and illustrated books, and was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist.She came to the United States at the age of twenty from Russia. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artist Group, which included Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollack.Slobodkina also enjoyed a career as a children's book author and illustrator. Her most famous book was the classic Caps For Sale published in 1938.

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