Mar 21, 2017 - Sale 2440

Sale 2440 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WILLIAM LUBEROFF.
Private Recital. Sample art from the portfolio of the artist's agent, with his stamp on verso, circa 1940s. Gouache on board. 394x305 mm; 15 1/2x12 inches, on 20 1/4x17-inch board. Initialed in lower left image. Adhesive residue in margins encroaching on upper portion of image.

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Luberoff (1910-2002) was a New York-based illustrator who began his career in the 1930s working freelance for pulp magazines like Saga, Love Romances, and Climax. He went on to design over 60 covers for Columbia magazine, one of which, most notably, resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In the late 1950s, Luberoff worked for Reproducta Company, Inc. and produced Christian-themed paintings, many of which remain among the most iconic and widely distributed religious images today.