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Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952)
Lot 187 Property from the Estate of Richard Ward Foster

Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952)

Portrait of Helen Fleck Seyffert

Closed7 March 2008

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Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952)
Portrait of Helen Fleck Seyffert
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1921.

Earl Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Helen Lloyd Horter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Paula M.L. Kelly, by descent.
Sotheby's, New York, 21 September 1994, lot 173.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

According to Barbara A. Wolanin, the present work is one among a series of three portraits of Helen Seyffert depicted in a similar pose that the artist painted in 1920 and 1921. This work resembles the final composition titled Woman in White (1920, Estate of Joseph H. Hirshorn), which is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Arthur B. Carles: Painting with Color. Mrs. Seyffert was a fellow painter and the wife of portrait painter Leopold Seyffert.