Auction Ends: Oct 26, 2011 05:00 PM EDT

Art

Fishing Boats Fine Art by Listed Artist Joseph Solman

Item Number: 128

Estimated Value: 2200 USD
Sold: 1900 USD to mightymary

Number of Bids: 15 - Bid History

Item Description

Beautifull color drawing of fishing boats by highly collectible artist, Joseph Solman. This seascape piece of boats in a harbor has a white matting and gold tone frame. The art alone measures 13"w x 10 1/2"h and with matting and frame 22 1/2"w x 20" h.

Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American Painter, a founder of The Ten, a group of New York City Expressionist painters in the 1930s. His best known works include his "Subway Gouaches" depicting travellers on the New York subways.

Joseph Solman was, with Mark Rothko, a co-founder of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who worked in New York City in the 1930s. A devout modernist during a time when social realism was in favor, Solman infused his New York street scenes with abstract qualities yet never abandoned recognizable subject matter. Solman, the only survivor of The Ten, now in his late nineties, has not received appropriate recognition for his “poetic paintings…(which) force the spectator to discover strange beauties in unpromising places.” (The New York Times, 1940).

Since his late teens, Solman sketched quick studies of people, shops and signage on the streets and alleyways of Jamaica, Long Island, where he lived with his family. In the 1930s, he began to document the streets of New York City and became quite well known as a founding member of The Ten in 1935. Solman, inspired by the Second Armory Show, which showcased the achievements of such modern artists as Picasso and Braque, incorporated elements of Cubism into his urban scenes, interiors and portraiture. Solman's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Public Library; and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, among many others.