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LEONARD PAOLETTI (1943-2018)
Summer Help. Oil on canvas. 635x457 mm; 25x18 inches. Signed, titled, dated "Nov 6 1977" in ink, verso. Signed and dated in acrylic, lower right recto. Signed and inscribed First "Tea Dance" Painting & "Bob LaSalle in white" in ink along the stretcher bar. Inscribed "Aug 5, 11, &19" in ink, verso. 1977.
Provenance: private collection; acquired by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2003).
Titled Summer Help and subtitled First "Tea Dance" Painting this oil on canvas from Paoletti depicts the iconic Provincetown 'Tea Dance,' a historically important and revered institution for almost 50 years, that occurs at The Boatslip. Paoletti was a painter, designer and proprietor of Provincetown's Elephant Walk Inn from 1985-2003. He was dubbed as a major actor in the development of Provincetown as a major gay tourist resort.
