Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

LEON BIBEL (1912-1995)


Performance.
Oil on canvas, 1938. 451x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed, Bibel,
and dated, 38, lower left.

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

Leon Bibel enroled in the CCC, and was stationed at Fort Winfield Scott, a training and supply facility active from 1933-39. Upon completion of his training and service on the labor division of the New Deal, he enrolled in the Mural Division of the WPA.