Lot 154: Frances Avery (b. 1910)

Portrait of Yvonne Pène du Bois
signed and dated 'Frances Avery '32' (upper left)
oil on canvas
13 x 10 1/4 in. (33 x 26 cm.)

Frances Avery, born in Kitchner, Ontario, studied at the Wickers School of Fine Arts, Detroit, Michigan, and at the Art Students League, New York. Supported by the Works Progress Administration, Avery was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of Women Painters and the National Society of Mural Painters. Avery's work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, 1938, 1941 (prize), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1935, and the World's Fair, 1939.

Yvonne Pène Du Bois studied at the Art Students League in New York under her celebrated father, Guy Pène du Bois. Pène du Bois, a muse for both her father and Frances Avery, was an artist in her own right, exhibiting at the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design, New York.