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Estate find from an estate in Kennett Square Pennsylvania. Large painting of a woman signed to the lower right and …
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Estate find from an estate in Kennett Square Pennsylvania. Large painting of a woman signed to the lower right and in original wood and silver leaf frame. Signed Hellebranth, Bertha, 1928, an early work by the artist who would have been about 25 years old at the time. Shows one very small area of damage to the upper right, see photos.
Bertha de Hellebranth was born in Budapest in 1903. She emigrated to America with her sister, Elena in the 1930s. The sisters lived together, both working as artists, in New Jersey. They found recognition early on, with a 1932 TIME magazine article hailing them “the only sister act in modern art”. They were known to paint the same subject simultaneously, and a client who commissioned a de Hellebranth portrait would have the option of choosing the preferred piece. Bertha de Hellebranth was a member of the American Artist’s Professional League, the American Watercolor Society, and the Audubon Society Artists. Her work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Fine Art Academy, and the National Academy of Design. Nearly 200 pieces of the de Hellebranth sisters’ art works were given to the American Hungarian Foundation’s Museum Collection in 2002.
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- Dimensions
- 34.5ʺW × 2ʺD × 58ʺH
- Art Subjects
- Figure
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1920s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paint
- Silver Leaf
- Wood
- Condition
- Original Condition Unaltered, Needs Restoration
- Color
- Dove Gray
- Condition Notes
- Overall great condition for its age, one small hole to the upper right. Overall great condition for its age, one small hole to the upper right. less
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