Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Sculpture Turkey circa 1850

Turkey circa 1850

Pavel Akimov Ovchinnikov

Arthur was employed by the Pubic Works of Art Project

The painting had come from an important family collection in Genoa Italy dating back to at least the mid 19th century

Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Sculpture Turkey circa 1850A 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