Untitled (Clown Playing Double Bass) by Samuel Brecher

Untitled (Clown Playing Double Bass) by Samuel Brecher

Untitled (Clown Playing Double Bass)

Samuel Brecher

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Title

Untitled (Clown Playing Double Bass)

 
Artist

Samuel Brecher

  1897 - 1982 (biography)
Year
1955  
Technique
ink and pastel drawing 
Image Size
7 1/2 x 4-1/2" 
Signature
signed in ink, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
ink dated below signature 
Reference
 
Paper
fibrous tan laid 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
14079 
Price
$500.00 
Description

Samuel Becher's untitled image of a seated clown playing a double bass (or perhaps plucking a cello) is unique in its wholly objective depiction. He does away with the saccharine, sentimental caricatures of earlier decades and avoids the dark overtones of the shabby jesters of the Depression so favored by many Ashcan-school artists. Simple, expressionist, and intimate, this image is a quiet ode to the entertainer.

Samuel Brecher was known for his images of circus performers and was included in a show of clown paintings alongside Picasso, Walt Kuhn, Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Rouault, and others in 1942 in San Francisco.

 
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