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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999)
Untitled (Woman with Pearl Choker).

Oil on masonite board, 1954. 300x222 mm; 11 3/4x7 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in oil, upper right.

Provenance: Anna L. Werbe Gallery, Detroit; private collection, Michigan.

Hughie Lee-Smith had a solo exhibition at the Anna L. Werbe Gallery in 1954, and exhibited there through the 1950s.

This elegant and enigmatic portrait shows the growing influence of surrealism on the mid-1950s paintings of Hughie Lee-Smith.


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