Jan 25, 2024 - Sale 2657

Sale 2657 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 11,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000

JOSEPH SOLMAN (1909-2008)


Watching an Excavation.
Oil on canvas, 1938. 768x914 mm; 30¼x36 inches. Signed, JS, upper center left.

Provenance: The artist; Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston; Private collection.

Exhibited: Judi Rotenberg Gallery, "Joseph Solman," 1987, illus. cover.

Publication: Chanin, A.L., "Joseph Solman," Crown Publisher, 1966. Plate 26; Wolff, Theodore, "Joseph Solman," DaCapo Press 1995, page 51 Plate #45; Temin, Christin, The Boston Globe (review), "The Pendulum Is Swinging Back," October 20, 1988.