Huge 4ft Carnival Irving Lehman Abstract Expressionist NY Russian WPA Artist Oil
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Huge 4ft Carnival Irving Lehman Abstract Expressionist NY Russian WPA Artist Oil:
$875.00
Large Irving G. Lehman Mid-Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting
From His \"Art & sale\"-Reported Carnival Series
New York Russian-American WPA Artist Oil
LEHMAN, Irving George (Russian/American, 1900-1983): Carnival Series Abstraction with Panorama of Abstract Figures, 1959, oil/masonite,24 x 48inches, signed in paint script \"Lehman\" lower right, dated in chalk (likely by the artist\'s wife Martha Lehman in Lehman\'s studio during the 1980\'s), affixed with inventory label number P-11 by Executor\'s agent\'s assistantcirca 1990 and affixed with remnants of a circa 2000-2004 local Florida exhibition price tag of $ 1,100.00 verso. Float mounted on rear support stretchers to be exhibited unframed.
Note: Lehman executed a series of 24 x 48 inch colorful, painterly, highly abstracted figural compositions in the late 1950\'s with similar formats of a crowd of stylized figures in the middle ground. A work from the series, reported in \"Art & sale\" circa 1990, was entitled \"Carnival\".
Provenance:
This work was acquired from an heir of one of Lehman\'s relatives who lived and worked in the Greater New York area.
PLEASE SEE EXTENSIVE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION BELOWCondition:
Quite sound unretouched original estate condition; plenty of even surface dirt; scattered minor imprefections; scattered adhesions of bits of cardboard and canvas from estate storage unframed; a couple of stray light surface linear rubs; no craquelure save for possibly at a couple of the impastoed flourishes; spots, spatters and scumbles that are likely mostly original to the gestural composition; staggered small edge imperfections that appear to be chips related to original backing support strip application; tiny staggered finishing nails line front edge that have been painted over - typical of Mid-Century Modern art that was conceived and created to be exhibited unframed, floated or with Minimalist strip moldings; one length of original backing support strip is absent and another is chipped but still attached by an original finishing nail; small losses to panel corners; major Lehman needing some surface and edge attention.
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About the Artist:
Biography:
LEHMAN, Irving George (Russian / American 1900-1983)
Painter, sculptor, printmaker and mixed media artist.
Came to New York from Russia as a young man and had studios in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Studied at Cooper Union and National Academy of Design.
One-man shows of both painting and sculpture at ACA Galleries in early 1930’s.
Worked as a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist during the Depression.
Member of American Art Congress, worked near Woodstock and in Columbia County, NY and visited Rockport, MA & Mexico.
Subjects include Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island, Central Park, Greenwich Village, Camp Lexington in the Catskills and Jewish themes, as well as both Social Realist and Constructivist influenced figures.
Lehman exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago ( AIC ), Brooklyn Museum, National Academy of Design ( NAD ), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ( PAFA ) Museum of Fine Arts, Bezalel, Israel as well as in Paris, France, Japan and elsewhere.
His oeuvre includes periods of considerable Constructivist, Ecole de Paris, Social Realist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Regionalist, Judaic and Russian interest.
Lehman signed in both cursive and printed letters throughout his career.
The artist’s date of death is variously recorded as 1981, 1982 & 1983 (the correct date is ‘83).
There are several recognized Lehman estate stamps including \"Red Rock Studio,\" a signature stamp and \"Estate of\" (as 1900-1982 as well as 1900-1983) as after the death of his wife (artist Martha Lehman) his art was dispersed to 11 heirs through numerous exhibitions and sales in Manhattan, upstate N.Y., New England, Florida and Canada during the 1990’s.
He is listed in the major sale databases, Davenport’s, Mallett’s, Who Was Who in American Art and numerous other publications.
15 Publications for Irving Lehman from the AskArt database:
2005 AskART Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005, p479
2005 Davenport, Ray
Davenport\'s Art Reference: The Gold Edition, p2421
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, 3 volumes, p3724
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog), p468
1991
Marlor, Clark S.
The Salons of America (Exhibition catalog) , p242
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog) , p622
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog), p1117
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog), p538
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram, p556
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
Who\'s Who in American Art-1986 1986, p1292
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947, p707
1984
Marlor, Clark S.
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog), p600
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
Who\'s Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition, p756
1973
Jaques Cattell Press
Who\'s Who in American Art, 1973, p927
1947
Editors
Who\'s Who in American Art,
Huge 4ft Carnival Irving Lehman Abstract Expressionist NY Russian WPA Artist Oil:
$875.00