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November Art + Design Discovery Auction

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The November Art + Design Discovery Auction auction features original drawings by Andy Warhol from the collection of John and Gloria Griffin.  From the same collection, we will be selling an important photograph of JFK by Mark Shaw, and two paintings by important illustrator Dorothy Monet.  These are the first Dorothy Monet paintings that we are aware of that have ever come to auction. The auction also includes works by Gerald Nees, Lois Main Templeton, George Jo Mess, Ruthven Byrum, and James Bruch, Romero Britto, Yuri Yuroz, Pablo Milan, Yacov Agam, Abiola Akintola, and others.
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Lot 132

Evelynne Mess "Old Montmarte, Paris" Etching

Estimate: $50 - $150
Starting Bid
$30

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Etching titled Old Monmartre, Paris by Indiana artist Evelynne Mess (American; 1903-2003). Signed, titled, numbered 10/100 lower edge.

 

Measurements: 12" W x 14" H (mat board); 8.75" W x 10" H (sheet).

 

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From AskArt:

Active in Indianapolis, Indiana art circles in the mid 20th century as an etcher, painter, teacher, and organizer, Evelynne Daily was Director of the Brown County Art Gallery Association from 1962 to 1964, and 1969-1971.



She was president of the Indiana Federation of Art Club, 1967-1969; and from 1940 to 1960, was instructor of painting and printmaking at Oxbow Acres Summer Art School in Brown County, Indiana.



Her first husband was painter George Jo Mess, with whom she shared a studio in Indianapolis after their marriage in 1925. Daily was raised in that city by parents who were musicians, and although she too had musical talent, from the time she was a child she wanted to be an artist. Her parents encouraged that interest, and at age twelve, she became a scholarship student at the John Herron Art Institute. Her teacher was illustrator Frederick Polley (1875-1957).

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