Jun 12, 2014 - Sale 2354

Sale 2354 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOSEPH HIRSCH
Tug of War.

Oil on gesso board. 400x1070 mm; 15 3/4x42 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.

Hirsch (1910-1981) was born in Philadelphia and studied in New York with George Luks in the early 1930s. He did not participate in the WPA, Federal Art Project, though his murals from the 1940s onward are found in many Philadelphia buildings.