Robert Vickrey (1926-2011), Portrait of a Woman

Egg tempera on Masonite, signed at lower right, inscribed Moore on the verso, presented in a later frame with white gold leaf and silk liner.

SS 9.25 x 15.25 in.; DOA 18.5 x 24 in.

From the Collection of Esther B. Ferguson, Secessionville Manor, Charleston, SC

Robert Vickrey was a crucial figure in the mid-twentieth-century renaissance of egg tempera, described by New York Times critic John Canaday as “most surely the world’s most proficient craftsman in egg tempera painting.”

Some rubbing to edges of Masonite; else very good estate condition.

$2,000 - 4,000