Summer Fine Art and Collectibles Auction
Lot 24:
Description
“Unsigned” Oil Painting on Masonite showing a Partially Nude Woman in Towel just out of the Bath, gallery framed in gilt gold . Accompanied by a letter stating the work came from the Beal estate ca.1930’s. Gifford Beal (1879-1956), painter, etcher, muralist, and teacher, was born in New York City in 1879. The son of landscape painter William Reynolds Beal, Gifford Beal began studying at William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock School of Art (the first established school of plein air painting in America) at the age of thirteen. Beal’s style was highly influenced by Chase and Childe Hassam, a long time friend of the Beal family who used to travel “about the countryside with Beal in a car sketching local sights.” Dimensions: 12.0″ x 20.0″ Image size, a 15.0″ by 23.5″ Overall.
Condition report:
Very Fine condition
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