Lot 272
North America, United States, Minna Citron (American, 1896-1991), signed portrait of Madame Levin, signed and dated 1931. A poignant lithograph frontal portrait of a matronly woman with a serious countenance donning plain clothes indicative of the working classes rather than the elite upper crust, in quintessential Social Realist style befitting of the Great Depression Era, signed and dated "M. Citron '31" on the lower right of the plate. Citron was a painter and printmaker who was best known for her Social Realist images set in New York City. By 1928 she began studying at the Art Students League in New York with John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller who influenced her style greatly with their satirical approaches. Citron's first solo exhibition took place in 1930 at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. In the thirties she became associated with the 14th Street School, a group of Realist painters that included Moses and Raphael Soyer and Isabel Bishop. In the late 1930s having viewed work by Stanley William Hayter, whose graphics workshop known as Atelier 17 had relocated from Paris to New York at the beginning of WWII, Citron grew more focused on printmaking, learned new techniques and created some of her own innovations at the Atelier 17. By the early 1940's, Citron changed her focus and explored abstraction; this would be the style she pursued for the remainder of her career. Citron had a successful career with many solo exhibitions. Her work has been represented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and the National Museum of American Art and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington. Size: image measures 5.75" L x 5" W (14.6 cm x 12.7 cm); sheet size 10.75" x 8.75" (27.3 x 22.2 cm)
Provenance: Ex-private Dr. Joseph & Edith Chess collection, Larchmont, NY
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- Condition: Intact and excellent. Paper shows some discoloration and wear commensurate with age, but very minor.
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