Lot 1389: LEON BERKOWITZ (American, 1919-1987). UNTITLED, signed and dated 82 lower right. Watercolor and pastel on paper.

Name: LEON BERKOWITZ (American, 1919-1987). UNTITLED, signed and dated 82 lower right. Watercolor and pastel on paper.
Brand: Sloans & Kenyon
SKU: ljkw3gfg0l

Est: $2,000 USD - $4,000 USD

Sloans & KenyonChevy Chase, MD, USSeptember 16, 2007

Item Overview

Description

LEON BERKOWITZ (American, 1919-1987). UNTITLED, signed and dated 82 lower right. Watercolor and pastel on paper - Sheet: 45 1/2 in. x 30 1/4 in.

Artist or Maker

Leon Berkowitz

Condition Report

Apparently good condition, examined under glass. One small stain to paper at extreme edge at lower right.

Notes

PROVENANCE: Purchased with Jean Efron, Corporate Art Consultant, Washington, DC, in 1983.

Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers is pleased to offer Lots 1380-1399 from the CarrAmerica Corporate Art Collection.

CarrAmerica, a leading commercial development company, was founded in 1962 in Washington, DC, by Oliver Carr. In the decades that followed, CarrAmerica played an active role in the transformation of the urban landscape of downtown Washington, until its acquisition by the Blackstone Group in 2006.

In the 1980s the company set out to assemble an art collection that would reflect its involvement in the cultural growth of the city. Jean Efron Art Consultants, whose clients include major corporations across the Mid-Atlantic region, developed for CarrAmerica a collection of work by contemporary Washington artists that showed the diversity and richness of artistic activity in the city.

The CarrAmerica corporate art collection includes some of the well-known artists of the Washington Color School: Gene Davis, a self-taught artist renowned for his edge-to-edge stripe paintings; Leon Berkowitz, a founder of the Washington Color School with Morris Louis; Sam Gilliam, one of today's most important African-American artists, who distinguished himself with inventive mixed-media techniques; painter and Phillips Collection curator Willem de Looper, who was inspired by images of America in publications such as the New Yorker< /> to emigrate to the United States from the Netherlands; Jacob Kainen, whose teachings in the 40s and 50s influenced the emergence of the Color School, and whose minimally elegant style in the 1980s is shown in the lots offered here; landscape and streetscape painter Frank Wright; realists Phyllis Plattner and Michael Vinson Clark; and other artists prominent on the Washington and Baltimore art scenes such as Edith Kuhnle Madeline Keesing, and William Dunlap.

Auction Details

September Estate Catalogue Auction

Sloans & Kenyon

September 16, 2007, 10:00 AM EST

7034 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815, US

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