Joyce Treiman

Joyce Treiman (American/Chicago/California 1922 - 1991)

The Measure of All Things is Man

Pastel and Pencil

Signed LR, dated 1982

Image size: 21-3/4" W x 30-1/4" H

Frame size: 24-3/4" W x 33-1/4" H

Provenance: Purchased from Leonard Auctions, Addison, IL, May 15, 2016

Estate of Esther Sprague Sparks (Art History Professor)

Exhibited at the Fairweather Hardin Gallery, 1984 (Label attached on verso)

Exhibited at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, March 30 to May 28, 1985, lent by the     Tortue Gallery

Published in the Massachusetts Review, Vol XXVII, No. 1, Spring 1986

Published in "Joyce Treiman", Michael Duncan and Theodore F. Wolff, Hudson Hills Press, Inc. 1997, p. 30.

Visit III

Oil on Canvas

Signed LL, c. 1955 - 1960

Image size: 32-1/2" W x 27-1/2" H

Frame size: 34-1/2" W x 29-1/2" H

Provenance: Purchased from Ripley Auctions, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2020

For Final Parade

Pastel, pencil and colored pencil on paper

Signed and inscribed LR, dated 1987

Image size: 20" W x 30" H

Frame size: 27-1/8" W x 36-1/8" H

Provenance: Purchased from Philadelphia Estate Liquidators, Philadelphia, PA, September 25, 2020

Aramark Corporate Collection, Philadelphia, PA 

Published in "Joyce Treiman", Michael Duncan and Theodore F. Wolff, Hudson Hills Press, Inc. 1997, p. 142.

The Witness

Oil on canvas

Signed and inscribed LR, dated 1987

Image size: 70" W x 70" H

Frame size: 71-1/2" W x 71-1/2" H

Provenance: Purchased from Philadelphia Estate Liquidators, Philadelphia, PA, September 25, 2020

Aramark Corporate Collection, Philadelphia, PA 

Published in "Joyce Treiman", Michael Duncan and Theodore F. Wolff, Hudson Hills Press, Inc. 1997, p. 151.

Seated Bronze

Bronze (Weight 63 lbs)

Signed and inscribed on verso

Size: 17" W x 12" D X 27" H

Provenance: Purchased from Hindman Auctions, Sale #948, Lot # 265, July 13, 2021

Property from the Collection of Leonard Stark, Chicago, Illinois


Drawing for Incident

Graphite on Paper

Signed and inscribed LL, 1983

Image size: 21-3/4" W x 21-3/4" H

Frame size: 24" W x 24" H

Provenance: Purchased from Steven's Art and Antiques, Monrovia, CA, June 5, 2022

Abby and Alan D. Levy Collection

Published in "Joyce Treiman", Michael Duncan and Theodore F. Wolff, Hudson Hills Press, Inc. 1997, p. 31.

Study for Big Bonnard and Me

Charcoal on Paper

Signed and inscribed LR, 1977

Image size: 22" W x 30" H

Frame size: 24" W x 31-3/4" H

Provenance: Purchased from Steven's Art and Antiques, Monrovia, CA, June 5, 2022

Abby and Alan D. Levy Collection

Published in "Joyce Treiman", Michael Duncan and Theodore F. Wolff, Hudson Hills Press, Inc. 1997, pgs. 14 and 26. (Part of the Artists Series of her work.)

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Oil on canvas

Signed LR, dated 1982

Size:  70" H x 42" W

Provenance: Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Property from Frances Luban Fine Art, Burbank, CA, acquired from the above, 1984

This lot is accompanied by copies of several payment receipts from early 1984, and an appraisal document dated August 15, 1985, all from Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 

Cain and Abel 

Media: Charcoal on Paper

Signed: Treiman '56 LL

Image: 18" W x 24" H

Frame: 22.25" W x 28.25" H x 1.25" D

Provenance: EBTH, March 30, 2023

The Judge

Media: Bronze

Signed: Identified on base as Joyce Treiman

Size: 5" H x 6" W x 5" D

Provenance: Ripley Auctions, Lot 220, July 20, 2023

Ex. Collection Chicago Gallerist, Sally Fairweather