Country Fair | |
Artist: | Grandma Moses |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 88.9 |
Width Metric: | 114.3 |
Museum: | private collection |
Country Fair is a 1950 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 89 and signed "Moses". It was sold at Sotheby's in 2009 for US$1,082,500.[1]
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a country fair, set in a typical Moses summer setting. The figures are coming and going in all manner of horse-drawn vehicles and taking part in various activities such as horse and cattle judging, buggy racing, and eating in a temporary festival tent. The central figure is a balloon man. It was one of the last large paintings she painted.[2]