Live Auction 20979Modern American Art
BLANCHE LAZZELL (1878-1956)
Lot 152 Property from The Joukowsky Collection

BLANCHE LAZZELL (1878-1956)

Composition

Closed21 April 2023

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BLANCHE LAZZELL (1878-1956)
Composition
signed and dated 'Blanche Lazzell.1928' (lower left)—signed and dated again (on the reverse)
oil on board
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1928.

Albert Gallatin, New York.
Private collection, Hadlyme, Connecticut.
Shannon's, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, 25 April 2002, lot 37, sold by the above.
Linda Hyman Fine Arts, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 2002.

Specialist note

West Virginia born Blanche Lazzell worked as a printmaker and painter, often experimenting with abstraction. She studied at the Art Students League in New York, the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, as well as numerous art schools in Paris. Throughout her studies, Lazzell practiced Cubism alongside Fernand Leger, whose influence prompted her to paint some of the first non-objective compositions in the United States. Her work is in numerous prominent museums, including The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The first owner of the present work was fellow Cubist artist Albert Gallatin, member of the New York City artist group known as the Park Avenue Cubists.