Name: Abraham Rattner (American, 1895-1978)
Brand: Two Figures and Masks, Composition #3
Price: 6000.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Abraham Rattner (American, 1895-1978)
Two Figures and Masks, Composition #3
signed 'Rattner' (lower center); signed, titled and dated, and numbered 'Abraham Rattner / Two Figures and Masks / Composition #3 / 1949 / No 525' (on an old label affixed to the frame)
oil on canvas
35¹⁄₄ x 45³⁄₄ in. (89.5 x 116 cm.)
Executed in 1949.

A.P. Rosenberg & Co., Inc., New York;
Purchased by Joseph R. Shapiro, Oak Park, 1949;
By descent to Donn Shapiro, 1967;
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 2016, lot 80.

Allen Leepa, Abraham Rattner, New York, 1970, p. 45, illustrated p. 139.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, 1949-50, no. 112.
Champaign, University of Illinois, Rattner, 1952-53, no. 28 (as Two Figures with Masks).
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary American Art, 1967.
Chicago, Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica, Jewish Artists of the Twentieth Century, 1976, no. 49 (as Two Figures with Masks).

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