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1960s "Man With a Flag" Leon Kelly Oil Painting on Masonite
$550.00 USD
Description
Essentially a Surrealist painter, Kelly did wide-ranging work that went from painterly to meticulous Surrealism, Cezanne-inspired watercolors, and Cubist painting. In the 1940s, Julian Levy, the Surrealist dealer, handled Kelly's work in New York City.
Kelly also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art Annuals (1933-34, 1939-46, 1966); Corcoran Gallery Biennials, Washington, D.C. (three times from 1935-47); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; had a 1965 retrospective exhibition at the International Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; Long Beach, New Jersey (1968); Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (1968, 1970); Newark Museum, New Jersey (1969); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Kelly's paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; and Museum of Modern Art; as well as Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Sara Roby Foundation Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; Newark Museum, New Jersey; and the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel.
ARTIST: Leon Kelly (1901-1982 Philadelphia, PA)
TITLE: Man with a Flag
SIZE: 12” x 6 1/2” Outside frame dimensions 16" x 10"
MEDIUM/ SURFACE/ PERIOD: Oil on Masonite, 1964
SIGNED: (upper right) Leon Kelly /(indisct.)1964
LABELS
INSCRIPTIONS: (verso, Masonite, hand painted) also (verso, masking tape, ink)
Leon Kelly Suzanne Gross
Man with c/o Ruth Weinstein
A flag. 1964 also (verso, Masonite, red crayon)
No. 641 Photo Kodachrome 1964
12 x 6 ½ inches also (verso, frame, ink) GROSS
CONDITION: Excellent Estate
RESTORATION: None
FRAME: Ebony and gold-toned cavetto molding with incised geometric ornament, the work inset with an off white molded liner.
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