Lot #2660: JAY MILDER - Subway Woman, New York City - Oil on paper

   

Artist: Jay Milder (American, b.1934).
Title: "Subway Woman, New York City".
Medium: Oil on paper.
Date: Composed 1963.
Dimensions: Image size: 17 3/8 x 20 in. (441 x 508 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Good condition; heavy impasto with very minor paint loss; paper brittle - not supple but firm; old tape and discoloration verso; no holes or tears in the image; unframed. Comment(s): Milder is a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. In 1954 he visited Europe where he studied painting with André L’Hote and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine, and spent much time studying at the studio of Stanley Hayter. Milder returned to the United States in 1956 and studied painting at the Chicago Art Institute. His work is in the permanent collection of many galleries and museums throughout the world, including The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in Tel-Aviv, Israel, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. [27880-4-800]