ART & CURIOSITIES
Lot 92:
This lot features a large impressive original oil painting, sold at Peggy DeSalle’s “Little Gallery” in Michigan. Signed by the artist lower right, but not identified. Features a gallery sticker from “Little Gallery” that once operated outside of Detroit Michigan. Measures in frame, 39.75” H x 29.5” W. Peggy deSalle was born Marguerite Fox in Snok, Hungary. She emigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1910 when she was six years old. As a young woman, she trained as an art photographer and worked for the art conservator at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1942, Peggy and Albert moved to Birmingham, and in 1950, she opened the Little Gallery at 915 E. Maple. It was the first art gallery in the Detroit area. Peggy called herself the ‘grandmother to the whole cause of contemporary art, ” and tirelessly promoted young artists, giving them an opportunity to “take flight and go elsewhere” once they were established.
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