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55 George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867-1933) Children of the Street Signed lower right “George Luks” Inscribed with title verso Oil on canvas 20 x 16 1/8 inches
$12,000-18,000 Luks made many paintings of working class subjects and scenes of the urban street. Luks’s representations of immigrant shoppers, pushcart peddlers, casual strollers and curious onlookers of the ethnic variety characterized metropolitan, turn-of-the century New York. It was very important for the artists associated with the Ashcan school to depict real life. Luks’s work typifies the ‘real-life’ scenes painted by the Ashcan School artists, in Children of the Street, Luks paints a three young children, a blond adolescent , a dark haired youth and an Asian child, huddled together in a red blanket for warmth. His bold brush and thick impasto together with his social consciousness are hallmarks of his best work.
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56 Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954) Two Women on a Boardwalk, 1943 Signed and dated lower right “R. Marsh 1943” Watercolor on paper 11 x 9 1/2 inches
$6,000-10,000 Provenance: Hudson’s Department Store, Detroit, Michigan Reginald Marsh was known for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s through 1950s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work. Two Women on the Boardwalk is an iconic example of Marsh’s watercolors from the depression era, his women are voluptuous and powerful. The work is infused with rich color and bold pen and ink lines, which attest to his love of Tiepolo drawings, and energize the watercolor
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