Like many of their fruity brethren, pears and strawberries have provided the subject for innumerable watercolor still lifes in the past — yet most of these earnest efforts have produced middling if ...

8.75 x 11.75 in. (22.2 x 29.8 cm.) Circa 1956, watercolor on paper, five pears painted in skillful watercolor strokes, ladybug on top leaf of one, signed to lower left corner, presented loose. 8 3/4 x ...