?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PHILIP REISMAN (1904-1992)
Grants Bar and Grill. 1958. Oil on masonite. 58½x68½ cm, 22¾x26¾ inches; Signed, Philip Reisman, lower left. Signed, Philip Reisman, dated, 1958, numbered, #357, and inscribed as titled on verso.
Richard Estes captured the neon signage and reflective glass and metal façade of Grant's restaurant and bar in a screenprint published in his 1972 portfolio, "The Urban Landscape." Perhaps Estes included this iconic restaurant for its history as a stomping ground of many people of note including Jack Kerouac, as well as prostitutes and pimps. Grant's opened its doors circa 1934 seeing good times and bad. As Time's Square declined so too did the clientele at the restaurant. In 1973 the owner closed the doors, and the space was leased to Kentucky Fried Chicken. Many New Yorkers have stories to tell, good and bad, of this memorable place. Here, Philip Reisman, a Polish immigrant, depicts the interior of Grant's in his signature vibrant palette.
