220
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CARL SPRINCHORN
Still Life (Basket of English Pansies)
.
Watercolor and gouache over pencil on light tan wove paper. 475x615 mm; 18
3
/
4
x24
1
/
4
inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection New Bertha Schaefer Gallery,
NewYork, with the label on the frame back.
Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971) studied with Robert Henri in NewYork from 1903 until
1910 and then traveled to Paris for a year, in 1912, to study at the Académie Colarossi.
His early modern subjects, before he sought out the figures and scenery of Maine, included
Parisian city scenes, theaters, dance halls, and cafes, similar to
Night—Copenhagen
, watercolor
(lot 219). Later, in Maine, Sprinchorn befriended Marsden Hartley (lot 213), who greatly
respected his work, and helped him attempt a “comeback” to his modernist beginnings.
Sprinchorn, who was only 26 years old at the time of the Armory Show, had four works
in the exhibition, one of which, an oil,
Distant Rain
, 1911, was priced at $250 (around
$6,000 today).
[1,500/2,500]
