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Sat, Jun 6, 2015 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Jun 7, 2015 11:00AM EDT
Lot 551

JOHN D. GRAHAM (1881-1961): PORTRAIT OF ONYA LA TOUR

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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Pencil on paper, 1939, signed 'Graham' on a piece of tissue-thin paper lower right, inscribed 'Macdougal street Oct 17 XXXIX' at bottom, inscribed 'Ivan Dabrowsky From Kiev Russia at night'. 14 1/2 x 11 in. (sheet), 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (frame).Note: Onya La Tour was a Russian-born painter and gallerist who showed the work of many Russian/American modernists, including John Graham (born Ivan Dubrowsky). In her date book from October 1939, La Tour noted Am posing for John Graham today…".Provenance: Collection of Onya La Tour; Private Collection."