859088

Harold Baumbach,The Photographer, Signed Litho #859088

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Harold Baumbach,The Photographer,  Signed Litho #859088
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"><tr><td><em> </em></td></tr><tr> <td width="100%"> Hand drawn stone lithograph by the master painter and printmaker. 30x22 in. on Arches paper numbered 74/75 and released in 1974. Signed in pencil. Domestic shipping-$20, International depending upon location.
American master artist, Harold Baumbach was a well-known painter and printmaker, whose style ranged from figurative to abstract. The son of an upholsterer, on the Lower East Side, New York, who did not want him to be an artist, Baumbach basically taught himself to paint. He first made a mark during the late 1930's as a figurative painter in the style of Bonnard and Vuillard, doing densely patterned street scenes and Brooklyn interiors.
During summers he painted landscapes, mostly in upstate New York and New England, then spent vacations in Provincetown, Massachusetts, a thriving art community where his close friends and fellow-artists, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko also vacationed.
Over time, Baumbach's work became increasingly abstract, but figures - generic card players, people sitting in parks, cows in fields - were always present as dreamlike devices for explorations in color and spatial relations.
"His real subject was not the world outside of himself but the stuff and texture and light of paint," a review in 1975, in Art News magazine explained. "He always turned everything he saw into his own patterned and textured imagery."
After an eye operation in the late 1980's he became legally blind, trying to paint for two years after that from memory before quitting. ...
<a href="http://www.goantiques.com/liveauction/complete_description.jsp?id=1244309" target=_new><b>View Complete Description</b></a> </td></tr><tr> <td> </td></tr><tr> <td>Reference #: HBPHOT074</td></tr><tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr><tr><td>Year:1974</td></tr><tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr><tr><td>Height:30</td></tr><tr><td>Width:22</td></tr><tr><td>Title:Harold Baumbach,The Photographer, Signed Litho</td></tr><tr><td>Location:New York, NY</td></tr></table>