RARE 1963 ORIGINAL SIGNED IRVING AMEN MID CENTURY MODERNIST PAINTING THE CELLO

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RARE 1963 ORIGINAL SIGNED IRVING AMEN MID CENTURY MODERNIST PAINTING THE CELLO:
$3550.00

I am selling a family estate and will be listing many fantastic antiques, artand estate items.

This is a rare and early signed and dated 1963 Irving Amen painting .Signed bottom right. The size of the canvas is 16\"x 20\". Total size is 22\" x 26\" with the frame. Very bright, vivid colors. This original oil on canvasis listed on his official website www.IrvingAmen.com.so it is confirmed authentic.Please see his amazing body of work and many museums where his artwork remains. I have listed this info below.An Amenbronze sculptureis listed for$15,000 on .canada. Please go to \"Ro Gallery\" and look at Amenprices far above this asking price. The painting is oil on canvas and invery goodcondition with no damage.Storage related wear. The original solid wood frame has a few scratches but nothing distracting. Original studio New York stamp on the back with an original price of $200 in 1963. The frame is very heavy. This is a rare opportunity for the Amen collector or for the mid century modernist art collector. Will consider offers.

This painting is large and heavy, requires an oversizedbox and shipping for extra largepackagesand thus very expensive to professionally pack and ship. Shipping is UPS price and includes insurance and signature confirmation. No international shipping.

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Brief Biography of Irving Amen Born in New York City, Amen began drawing at the young age of four. By the time he was fourteen years old, he won a scholarship to the Pratt Institute. He emulated Michelangelo\'s masterpieces and spent years perfecting his own unique style.
From 1942 to 1945 he served with the Armed Forces. He headed a mural project and executed murals in the United States and Belgium.
He had his first exhibition was at the New School for Social Research in New York and his second at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington in 1949.
His travels throughout Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective at the Artists House in Jerusalem.
He then studied in Paris where he had one-man shows in painting, woodcut and sculpture. Besides practicing his art, Amen also taught classes in sculptor and printmaking at such schools as the Pratt Institute (1961) and at Notre Dame University(1962).
Commissions include a Peace Medal in honor of the Vietnam War and 12 stained glass windows for the Agudas Achim Synagogue in Ohio.
He is listed in Mantle Fielding Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers and the Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings.
A positive attitude, love of mankind, and religious background emanate from his work.Museums withArt by Irving Amen in their collection

Albertina Museum – Vienna
Albion College, Albion, MI
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealnad
Baltimore Museum of Art – Maryland
Beloit College (Wright Museum of Art), Beloit , WI
Bezalel National Museum – Jerusalem
Bibliothèque National, Paris
Bibliothèque Royal, Brussels
Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Massachusetts
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis TN
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO
City of Philadelphia Public Library, Philadelphia, PA
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C.
Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington, DC
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Davenport Municiple Art Gallery, Davenport, IA
De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Dominican University (formerly Rosary College), River Forest, IL
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Fogg Art Museum – Massachusetts
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Gilford College, Greensboro, NC
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson , KS
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Jewish Museum – New York
Judah L Magnes Memorial Museum, Berkeley, CA
Lafayette Art Center, Lafayette, IL
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York
Mills College, Oakland CA
Museum of Modern Art – New York
New York Public Library, New York
Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Philadelphia Museum of Art – Pennsylvania
The Art Museum of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
Skirball Museum Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian Institution – Washington, DC
Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA
State University of NY, New Paltz, NY
Statische Museum – Germany
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
University of Maine, Orono, ME
University of Minnesota, (Frederick R Weisman Art Museum) Minneapolis, MN
Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
Victoria and Albert Museum – England
Yale University Gallery, New Haven CT

Irving Amen: A fine twentieth century sculptor, painter, etcher, silk-screen and woodcut artist, Irving Amen studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Academy Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Throughout his career he traveled extensively, particularly in Europe, Russia and Central America. Besides practicing his art, Amen also taught classes in sculptor and printmaking at such influential schools as the Pratt Institute (1961) and at Notre Dame University (1962). His art was exhibited with the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Library of Congress and the National Academy of Design. In 1949 the Smithsonian Institution also launched a one man exhibition of his work. Amen’s famous art is now included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.