Jun 09, 2011 - Sale 2250

Sale 2250 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
JARED FRENCH
Città.

Egg tempera on gessoed masonite, circa 1960s. 495x495 mm; 19 1/2x19 1/2 inches. Ex-collection the Estate of the artist, Rome; directly to the current owner, Rome.

In the early 1960s, French began to paint geometric compositions of Italian architecture, exemplified by the current work. His architectural paintings coincided with his gradual move to Rome at this time, and reflect back to similar constructed forms in Renaissance paintings by Mantegna, Botticelli and Signorelli, among others.