Oil on Canvas

Signed LR, Dated 1950

Image Size:  51-1/4" x 38-1/2"

Frame Size:  62" x 48"

Provenance:

The Downtown Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Coltman, Pennsylvania

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (as Gargoyle in Flames)

Sold: Sotheby's, March 14, 1996, Lot 191 (as Gargoyle in Flames)

The Philip and Suzanne Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art, 1930 - 1970, Highland Park, Illinois

Exhibited:

New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Four American Expressionists, January - March, 1959, no. 118 (this exhibition also traveled to Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, April 8 - May 10, 1959; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, May 24 - June 30, 1959; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Art, July 15 - August 30, 1959; Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, November 22 - January 3, 1960)

White Plains, New York, Westchester Art Society Gallery, Third Annual Invited Artists' Show, January 24 - February 7, 1965

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Peale House Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Abraham Rattner, September 22, 1966 - October 30, 1966

Literature:

Noel S. Frackman, Outposts of Art: Of Painters and Sculptors, Patent Trader, Mt. Kisco, New York, Sunday, January 31, 1965, pp. 11

Allen Leepa, Abraham Rattner, Harry Abrams Publishers, Inc., New York, 1979, P. 149.

Description:  Acrylic on Masonite

Image Size:  23-3/8" x 17-7/8"

Frame Size: 33" x 27" 

Provenance: Purchased from Baridoff Auctions, Lot 252, April 13, 2024