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The Super's Wife by Cecil Bell
The Super's Wife
Cecil Bell
Title
The Super's Wife
Artist
Cecil Bell
1906 - 1970 (biography)Year
1933
Technique
oil painting on board
Image Size
16 x 12" image size
Signature
pigment signature, lower right
Edition Size
Annotations
ink signed and studio stamped on verso
Reference
illustrated: Barton pg 96; discussed on page 70
Paper
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
AN107
Price
$3,750.00
Description
In her book on the work of Cecil Bell, Phyllis Barton states (Page 70) "The Super's Wife, one of Bell's first oils, reveals a humanistic stylization of form explicatory of Bell's abiding love for the American proletariat. With affection and the tolerant humor of Daumier, Bell characterized his buxom, aproned lady as the power behind the throne, her symbol of authority the postern marking the entrance to her basement flat".