557. Eda Sterchi (American, b.1885), “Two Women in an Interior”, c.1918; oil/canvas, 20" x 28", signed. Sterchi executed at least two different versions of this composition, with the subject in the white. The other is in a private collection. This work was executed in Paris, and reveals the artist’s concern with creating a two dimensional view, rejecting the classical realist view, searching for the true face of modernity. Sterchi, not unlike the Secessionists, bonded contradictory elements to develop a universal manifesto against 19th century certainties in art forms. Sterchi herself was an icon of the modern woman: she was the first among her circles to cut her hair in a bob, she was the first to get divorced, and the first to smoke cigarettes, yet her painted images were unmoving, peaceful, and direct; a virtual asylum from the stressful, whirling modern life. Deliberate simplicity and large fields of color replaced material detail and fanciful depictions of a subject. Provenance: Direct descent through the family to the great niece of the artist. 8000-10,000

Lot 557

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