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Lot 1127

3 Small Meyer Wolfe Drawings: Street Scenes & Nude Couple

Estimate: $300 - $400
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$150

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Three (3) small drawings by Meyer Wolfe (Tennessee/New York, 1897-1985). Includes 1 drawing of three row houses, with several figures engaged in leisure activities along the stoops and sidewalk, signed and dated 1940 lower left (Sight: 5 1/2 in. W x 3 in. H, Frame 10 in. x 8 in); 1 street scene depicting crowded tenement houses in the shadow of a church steeple (Unsigned, Sight 4 1/2 in. H x 4 in. W, Frame 8 in. H x 7 1/2 in. W); and 1 sketch or study of a nude, standing couple, signed lower right and dated 1942. (Sight: 4 1/2 in. H x 2 3/4 in. W, Frame: 9 in. H x 7 in. W.). All items matted and framed under glass. Note: Meyer (“Mike”) Wolfe was born into a Jewish Lithuanian immigrant family and raised in a low-income, racially diverse neighborhood in Nashville just north of the Tennessee State Capitol. (The neighborhood was cleared in the 1950s under a series of Urban Renewal projects). In 1918, Wolfe moved to New York and met Ashcan School painter John Sloan, whose influence is reflected in several of Wolfe's scenes of working-class neighborhoods such as these. 

Condition

All with degrees of toning to paper and to mats, slight wear to frame, overall good condition. 

Provenance

The estate of the artist's nephew, Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, Nashville, Tennessee.

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