WILLIAM SHARP (1900 1961) The Explorer

Sale 2678 - Lot 91

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WILLIAM SHARP (1900-1961)
The Explorer.

Oil on canvas, circa 1940. 507x430 mm; 20x17 inches. Initialed lower left, and with the artist's estate stamp verso.

Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Private collection, New York.

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William Sharp was born in Austria, where he received formal art education, before advancing his studies in Kraków, Berlin, and Munich. He worked as an illustrator, printmaker, muralist and stained glass designer during his early career, which was interrupted by his service as a German machine gunner in World War I. After the war, Sharp remained in Berlin, and his scathing political cartoons made him an enemy of the National Socialist party. His life threatened, in 1934 Sharp moved to New York where he continued to work as an illustrator for newspaper articles, cartoons, and books, and also became a successful printmaker. His work was exhibited at several well regarded New York galleries during his lifetime, including Wehye Gallery and Kennedy Galleries. He is represented in many important institutional collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.