Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Sculpture for the Fleischman Baths at

for the Fleischman Baths at 42nd St

Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio

below is a mercury thermometer with the name "J

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

For more than a 100 years

Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Sculpture for the Fleischman Baths atA 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