WILLIAM ZORACH Mother and Child.

WILLIAM ZORACH

Mother and Child.

Watercolor and pencil on cream wove paper, 1918. 340x193 mm; 13½x7 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto, and dedicated "To Lawrence Allen, Merry Christmas 1949" in pencil, lower center recto.Ex-collection Lawrence Allen, New York; private collection, Chicago.Allen was a collector of Zorach's (1887-1966) work, lending from his extensive collection to the Zorach retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1959, along with fellow collectors Edith Halpert, of the Downtown Gallery, New York (who represented Zorach for several decades), and John C. Marin, Jr., the son of the artist John Marin (see lot 137).