Mel Fellini modeled for a plaster sculpture study used as a model for French’s iconic painting of “The Sea”, 1946, egg tempera on gesso panel, 24-1/2 x 36 in.
Provenance: The artist, to Paul Cadmus, to the Collection of Paul Cadmus & Jon Anderson, to private collection, Boston.
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