Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SAUL BOLASNI (1916 - 2012)

Untitled (Portrait of a Gentleman).
Ink and watercolor on paper. Signed, Bolasni, lower left. 431x355 mm; 17x14 inches. 1959.

Provenance: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Collection, New York.

Dancer, designer, illustrator and artist, Saul Bolasni had many talents. Bolasni performed with the Valerie Bettis Dance Company and designed costumes for television and theater. He provided illustrations for a number of magazines and in 1942 one of them appeared on the front of the New Yorker. His works are in the collections of The Museum of the City of New York, the Lincoln Center Library, and the National Portrait Gallery.