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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED WOOD CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'MOORISH QUEEN'
Lot 234A SELECTION OF PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GARY HERMAN DUBNOFF

A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED WOOD CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'MOORISH QUEEN'

POSSIBLY SAMUEL ANDERSON ROBB (1851-1928), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880

Fermé24 January 2020

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED WOOD CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'MOORISH QUEEN'
POSSIBLY SAMUEL ANDERSON ROBB (1851-1928), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1880
84 in. high

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Andrews, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1 May 1980, lot 618

Note du spécialiste


The ‘Moorish Queen’ was one of the most popular Demuth figures. For an example of a ‘Moorish Queen’ from the Demuth catalogue see Frederick Fried, Artists in Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures, and Circus Wagons (New York, 1970), p. 52, no. 52.

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