Auction 456 19th Annual Winter Art Auction
By Soulis Auctions
Dec 7, 2024
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Join us for one of our most important offerings of the year featuring original works by major American artists, a selection of fine prints, and the presentation of two recently discovered artist's estates.

LOT 14:

LEON BIBEL (1912-1995) 1939 WPA ERA OIL ON CANVAS

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LEON BIBEL (1912-1995) 1939 WPA ERA OIL ON CANVAS
Leon Bibel (1912-1995)

Signboard Bend 1939

1939

Signed and dated lower right front.

This modernist composition was painted during the period when Leon Bibel was part of the New York City WPA Federal Art Project. As a painter, printmaker and sculptor Leon Bibel primarily painted genre subjects of Social Realism highlighting the struggles of workers, and the politics of protest during the Great Depression. By some reports, Bibel was himself arrested for protesting cuts to the Federal Art Project. Besides works of protest, he produced landscapes and cityscapes like this painting. A few years after this canvas was painted, Bibel took to poultry farming because, as he put it, .'we wanted to eat.' It wasn't until around 1960 that he would resume painting with any consistency.

Canvas size 24 x 30, frame measures 29 x 35 inches.

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Condition: Very good original untouched condition. There are no issues of major scratches, losses, repairs, in-painting or touch-up, confirmed under UV light. Original stretchers, no relining.

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