Nov 17, 2022 - Sale 2622

Sale 2622 - Lot 282

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ANTHONY GREEN
Airmail Cards Souvenir from Leonia.

Oil on canvas, 1968. 1230x1020 mm; 48 1/2x40 inches. Signed, titled and dated in red ink, verso.

Green (born 1939) is an English realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and polygonal forms--particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvases. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy, London in 1971, was elected a full in 1977 and won the Royal Academy Summer Exhibit the same year. His works are in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; and the Tate Gallery, London.

Provenance: Sloan's Miami, January 16, 2001, lot 22; Spanierman Gallery, New York; Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey, September 23, 2020, lot 434; private collection, New Jersey.