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Sat, Mar 14, 2015 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Mar 15, 2015 11:00AM EDT
Lot 10

PHILIP DE LÁSZLÓ (1869-1937): MR. HERBERT LESLIE TERRELL; AND MRS. HERBERT LESLIE TERRELL

Estimate: $4,000 - $8,000
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Two oil on canvas, 1909, both signed 'P.A. László' and dated upper left, 57 x 39 in., 60 x 43 in. (frame), 59 x 39 in., 62 x 43 in. (frame), respectively.Exhibited: Mr. Terrell: An Exhibition of Portraits by Philip A. László, Dowdeswell Galleries, London.Literature: Mrs. Terrell: Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, p.256. Both portraits included in The Catalogue Raisonné of Works by Philip de László, M.V.O., P.R.B.A., 1869-1937.Note: Mary Elizabeth Wood married Herbert Leslie Terrell, one of the owners of Continental Tabacco Company. They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Bertha. According to the artist's correspondence, Bertha also commissioned portraits, asking de László to paint an oil sketch of her sister, Elizabeth, in 1929, and a drawing of her husband, Wilfred Buckley. De László also painted their daughter, Janet, in 1910. De László painted the portrait of Mrs. Terrell first and then painted her husband to make a pair.