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Zoltan SepeshySide Show Barker - Original Modernist American Fair Scene Oil Painting1938
1938
$36,000
£27,485.03
€31,479.98
CA$50,435.84
A$56,393.44
CHF 29,580.71
MX$683,059.93
NOK 373,398.34
SEK 352,771.21
DKK 234,966.87
About the Item
From the Michael Hall Collection, this is a great American scene showing the excitement of the fair. It depicts a time when men wore coats and ties and women had hats at the fair because it was such a big event. You can see the snake charmer, animal handler, and side show barker entertaining the crowd. This is one of Zolton Sepeshy's best paintings and is an important work in his catalog.
The painting is presented in an original artist frame.
Born in Kassa, Hungary, Zoltan Sepeshy later became a resident artist of Birmingham, Michigan. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Budapest as well as in Vienna and Paris. He was appointed as an art instructor at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts and later at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
His first solo exhibition took place in New York, at Newhouse Galleries, in 1932. Sepeshy showed 20 paintings and eight graphics, including depictions of urban America, genre, and European subjects, all done in a modernist manner seemingly derived from Cézanne and the Cubists.
He was a major painter of the American Scene and depicted the small towns and harbors around Lake Michigan. A further gauge of his importance is that during his lifetime, museums ranging from national institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago to university galleries such as the Sheldon Art Museum at the University of Nebraska acquired his work for their permanent collections.
- Creator:Zoltan Sepeshy (1898 - 1974)
- Creation Year:1938
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 37 in (93.98 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Condition:Good condition in an original artist frame.
- Gallery Location:Marco Island, FL
- Reference Number:Seller: INV1501stDibs: LU2866216243692
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