Lot 26: Jules Eugene Pages (1867-1946) Window Shopping, Chinatown, San Francisco 15 1/4 x 18 1/4in overall: 22 x 25in US$ 15,000 - 20,000

Jules Eugene Pages (1867-1946)
Window Shopping, Chinatown, San Francisco signed 'JULES PAGES-' (lower right) and titled (on the stretcher bar)oil on canvas15 1/4 x 18 1/4inoverall: 22 x 25in

Provenancewith Graves Gallery, San Francisco, California.with William A. Karges Fine Art, Carmel, California.Private collection, California.Exhibited(Probably) San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Jules Pages Memorial Exhibition, September 1946, no. 24.Pages is well-regarded for his unmitigated scenes of the hustle and bustle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Often tightly cropped, his compositions reflect a journalistic eye, unlike some of his contemporaries whose focus was on the picturesque through a romanticized lens.