Lot 247 — “Tucker,” Pastel Portrait of a Hound, 1962
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Lot 247 — “Tucker,” Pastel Portrait of a Hound, 1962

A pastel portrait of a brown-and-white hound wearing a cross-shaped tag, on sage-green paper. Signed “Yvonne” in red, with “Tucker” lettered on the mat and a student label dated 1962 on the back.

Artist
Yvonne M. Smith (signed “Yvonne”; student label dated 3-15-62)
Dimensions
Not yet measured
Materials
Pastel on green paper, cream mat, oak frame under glass

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Description

Tucker looks up out of a field of sage-green paper with the patient, heavy-lidded gaze of a ship’s dog on a long watch. Long dark ears, a tan mask, a white chest worked in quick chalky strokes, and a little cross-shaped tag hanging from his collar. The artist signed it “Yvonne” in red at the lower right, and his name is lettered in blackletter on the cream mat below.

On the back is a printed student label filled in by hand: “Mrs. Yvonne M. Smith,” Cass Lake, Minnesota, dated 3-15-62. Same Yvonne as the signature on the front. More than sixty years on, Tucker is still holding the pose. In a plain oak frame under glass.

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