Lot 80
  • 80

Abraham Rattner

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Abraham Rattner
  • "Two Figures and Masks", Composition #3
  • signed Rattner (lower center); signed Abraham Rattner, titled "Two Figures and Masks ", Composition #3, dated 1949 and numbered No 525 (on an old label affixed to the frame)
  • oil on canvas
  • 35 by 46 inches
  • (88.9 by 116.8 cm)

Provenance

A.P. Rosenberg & Co., Inc., New York
Joseph R. Shapiro, Oak Park (purchased from the above, 1949)
Donn Shapiro (by descent from the above, by 1967)
Acquired from the above as a gift, 1976

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, 1949-50, no. 112
Champaign, University of Illinois, Rattner, 1952-53, no. 28 (as Two Figures with Masks)
Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary American Art, 1967
Chicago, Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica, Jewish Artists of the Twentieth Century, 1976, no. 49 (as Two Figures with Masks)

Literature

Allen Leepa, Abraham Rattner, New York, 1970, p. 45, illustrated p. 139

Condition

Oil on canvas. Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition, generally, aside from minor, scattered craquelure. Work is painted with a thick inpasto. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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