EUGENE BERMAN | STUDY FOR "JULIEN LEVY MONOGRAPH"

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November 18, 07:50 PM GMT

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300 - 400 USD

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EUGENE BERMAN (1899 - 1972)

STUDY FOR "JULIEN LEVY MONOGRAPH"

Signed with the initials E.B and dated 1945 (lower center)

Pen and ink on paper

10¾ by 8¼ in. (27.3 by 21 cm)

Framed: 16 by 13½ in. (40.6 by 34.3 cm)

Executed in 1945.

We extend sincere thanks to Peter Sherwin for his kind assistance in authenticating the present work from photographs.

Julien Levy, New York

Jean Levy, New York (by descent from the above and sold by the estate: Tajan, Paris, April 21, 2005, lot 345)

Gallery of Surrealism, New York

Acquired from the above in June 2005

Julien Levy, Eugene Berman, New York, 1946, n.n., mentioned p. 3

Berman used the motif of woman seen from behind with her elbows resting on a table for a number of major oil paintings in the early 1940s including Solitude, painted in 1941 (see image 5).