Feb 17, 2011 - Sale 2237

Sale 2237 - Lot 55

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
WALTER AUGUSTUS SIMON (1916 - 1979)
The Iron Eagle.

Oil on canvas, circa 1960. 914x1016 mm; 36x40 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.

Provenance: the artist, Montclair, NJ; private collection.

Exhibited: The Twenty-Ninth Annual New Jersey State Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, 1960, with the label on the upper stretcher verso.

This large oil painting is one of a series of New York City's Second Avenue, painted while Simon was completing his PhD in art history at New York University.