Lot 38
  • 38

Jack Levine b. 1915

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Jack Levine
  • Opening Night - Woman with a Fan
  • signed JLevine, l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 21 in.
  • 61 by 53.3. cm.
  • Painted in 1971

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, New York

Exhibited

New York, The Jewish Museum, Jack Levine Retrospective Exhibition, 1978-79, catalogue no. 71

Literature

Stephen Robert Frankel, Jack Levine, New York, pp. 110-111, illustrated, p. 110

Catalogue Note

Jack Levine remarked about this work, "What I am doing is not too far removed from writing a one-act play.  Every actor needs a little business, something to do with the hands, and a fan is natural." (Frankel, op. cit., p. 110)