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MORGAN RUSSELL
Portrait Study
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Oil on canvas, 1917. 460x390 mm; 18
1
/
8
x15
1
/
4
inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left
recto, and counter signed in oil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Harold English, Paris, by
descent in his family to his grand niece.
Possibly a portrait of Emilie Francesconi, the artist’s first wife, whom he married the same year.
Russell sold one of the two paintings he had in the Armory Show; it was an oil of
Capucines
,
1912, that went for $60 (around $1,400 today).
[4,000/6,000]
