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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Hyman Dorfman

Mother and Child

Lot closes

October 21, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

100 - 200 USD

Current Bid

1,200 USD

15 Bids

No reserve

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Lot Details

Description

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Hyman Dorfman

c. 1922 – 2014

Mother and Child


wood carving

height (overall): 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.)

Conceived circa 1936.


Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com. 

Acquired from the artist in December 1936 by the present owner

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New Horizons in American Art, 1936, no. 430, p. 166

“Acquisitions,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 1938, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 7