Lot 287A: ESTHER ESTELLE PRESSOIR ILLUSTRATION

PRESSOIR, Esther Estelle, (American, 1905-1986): Multi Piece Drawing Lot; Portrait after Antonio Pollaholo "The Young Clerk", pencil drawing, 23" x 19", signed lower right dated 1919, scattered dirt, tears in margins, folds; Pencil and Charcoal drawing of a Neoclassical Sculpture with a Nude Man Carrying a Baby, 24 1/2" x 18 1/2", signed lower right, unframed, folds in the margins, scattered dirt; Female Nude Pencil Study, 23" x 18 3/4", signed lower right, creasing throughout, fold in margins; Pencil Study of an Elderly Man, 32" x 19 1/2", signed lower right, scattered loss of paper; Pencil Drawing of a Woman Seated at a Spinning Wheel, 20" x 15 1/2", signed lower right unframed, pencil signed verso, fold in middle, staining throughout; all items sold as is. Pressoir was an illustrator, painter and instructor, and attended the Rhode Island School of Design.

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