Original Signed Painted Portrait of an Unidentified Young Woman

by Sylvia Plath

$135,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Wellesley, Mass : n.p, 1948 or 1949 . An original, bold portrait painted by a 16-year-old Sylvia Plath. Near fine. Item #51496 Plath made visual art throughout her life in a wide variety of mediums: from collage and oils to watercolor and pastels. Before she settled firmly on poetry in college, she seriously considered majoring in art. This early piece, painted while she was in high school and, given the inscription on

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