Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Sculpture Arthur was employed by the

Arthur was employed by the Pubic Works of Art Project

The case is hallmarked to the gilt interior with the lion passant mark and the silver purity mark for 875 and the goldsmith's stamp for Hirsch Markowitsch

Pavel Akimov Ovchinnikov

5 cm X 152

for the Fleischman Baths at 42nd St

Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Sculpture Arthur was employed by theA large portrait by the celebrated Puerto Rican American muralist artist Juan De'Prey (1904 1962), signed & titled "La Pensadora" (The Thinker), circa 1930. This painting is by one of Puerto Rico's most collected artists, De'Prey was an outsider artist and also considered a modernist, aside from being a muralist he painted works in oils and acrylics. This picture is finely rendered in charcoal and mixed media on paper, it depicts a young woman