Lot 78: XAVIER J. BARILE (ITALIAN/AMERICAN, 1891-1981) PORTRAIT OF WALTER PULITZER ESQ. Oil on canvas: 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (sight)

XAVIER J. BARILE (ITALIAN/AMERICAN, 1891-1981)
PORTRAIT OF WALTER PULITZER ESQ.
Oil on canvas: 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (sight)
Framed; lower left signed: Xavier J. Barile; Walter Pulitzer, well known writer-post-critic, paid the following tribute to Mr. Barile: "...I am not stretching my editorial canvas when I say I have always found something new - something charmingly fresh and arresting in his offerings, whether in the widely divergent fields of landscape, portraiture, charcoal or drypoint. ... with a rare and commendable economy of force and pigment, and yet a magic warmth surely borrowed from his sunny clime - his somehow charged brush gives us the very motion of water gently heaving in a smooth expanse, skies so varied and colorful that one must fain linger over them, hills and valleys. !the greenest of things green! as Swinburn would say