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Picnic (also called: "The Blanches and the Lees") by Pele de Lappe
Picnic (also called: "The Blanches and the Lees")
Pele de Lappe
Title
Picnic (also called: "The Blanches and the Lees")
Artist
Pele de Lappe
1916 - 2007 (biography)Year
1932
Technique
lithograph
Image Size
11 1/4 x 9 3/16" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right; initialed "PD" in the stone, lower left
Edition Size
not stated (around 12)
Annotations
pencil titled and dated; accompanying label notes secondary title
Reference
an impression is included in "Bolton Brown and Lithography" at the Historic Woodstock Art Colony
Paper
ivory wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
WECA103
Price
$800.00
Description
According to the New York State Museum, this is a summertime image. The people are two Woodstock couples, Lucille and Arnold Blanch on the left, and Doris and Russell Lee on the right. Doris Lee drapes her arm over Arnold Blanch’s knee, gazing at him. Both couples eventually divorced and, Doris and Arnold, who would have been one of her teachers, married in 1939. This lithograph is illustrated in “The Historic Woodstock Art Colony: Arthur A. Anderson Collection.”