HAVEMEYER, Carlotta (Later Mrs Anson Bigelow) (1915)
Description:
Bust length right profile. Oil on canvas, 22” x 16”. Signed.
Location:
Private Collection, Pittsboro, NC, USA.
Provenance:
H. O. Havemeyer (died 1965); the sitter; by descent.
Carlotta Havemeyer was born in New York on 13 December 1901, the eldest child and daughter of H.O. Havemeyer Sr (1876-1965) and Charlotte Adelaide Green Whiting Havemeyer (1880-1962). She married Anson Alexander Bigelow (1897-1958) and was killed when run down by a car in Tuxedo Park on 12 February 1952. Muller-Ury painted more portraits of Carlotta Havemeyer than any other member of the family.
Painted around 1915.
