Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗Self Imprisonment, 1962
Oil · Board
Rago Auctions · Sep 26, 2025$266,700 ≈ £199,700 ≈ €228,496Sign up free to see price
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Doors with Cat and Shell
Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909–1977) · 1957
$209,550 price realized incl. premium
≈ £167,426≈ €192,583
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on Masonite”
- Support
- Board
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated "abercrombie ‘57" lower right
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 7 x 8 in. (17.8 x 20.3 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session (NY010423)
- Date
- May 16, 2023
- Location
- New York, United States
- Lot
- 136
- Estimate
- $60,000 – $80,000 (≈ £47,939 – £63,918) (≈ €55,142 – €73,523)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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