Lot #2758: MARIE BRUNER BURT HAINES - Portrait of Elizabeth - Pastel on paper

   

Artist: Marie Bruner Burt Haines (American, 1884-1979).
Title: "Portrait of Elizabeth".
Medium: Pastel on paper.
Date: Composed c1943.
Dimensions: Image size: 18 7/16 x 13 13/16 in. (468 x 351 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/900
Lot Note(s): Signed "Marie Haines" in red ink, lower right. Tan laid paper. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont.
Comment(s): Three Haines oil paintings sold at Skinner's (Boston) on September 11, 2009, for $3,081, $2,133, and $1,896, respectively. A thoroughly accomplished painter, her artistic training was impeccable: Cincinnati Art Academy; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Art Students League; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1920s she was an early member of the Taos, New Mexico art colony. She is especially well known for her pastel portraits of children. [23484-3-400-NA]