$6,765
Jared French (American, 1905-1987) Model Not Posing Signed "Jared French" l. r., titled on labels from the Midtown Galleries, New York, and DC Moore Gallery, New York, affixed to the back of the frame. Ink and graphite on paper, 13 x 21 in. (33.0 x 53.3 cm), framed. Condition: Drawing hinged at the top, minor toning. N.B. Jared French, together with Paul Cadmus and George Tooker, worked in a style that is now called Magic Realism. The three artists were based in New York in the 1930s-50s. The sitter of this drawing may have been Cadmus, close friend of French, and quite possibly his lover for a time. However, in 1937, French married Margaret Hoening, also an artist. For the next eight years Cadmus and the Frenches summered on Fire Island and formed a photographic collective called PaJaMa ("Paul, Jared, and Margaret"). During this period Jared French also painted murals for the WPA.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-09-23
