April 17, 2024
2 Large Expressionist painting -Bucks County Modern B Segal - 2 Bimah Synagogue
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Lot of 2 expressionist works by Bucks County painter Bernard Segal. Both paintings are interior Synagogue depictions of the bimah. The smaller of the two pieces has a sight size of 15 x 11 1/2 inches. Signed B Segal at the lower left and dated 1966. Mounted on a presentation mat with overall measurements of 21 x 16 inches. In excellent estate condition. The second piece is larger with sight size 28 x 14 inches. No apparent signature on the larger work. The second piece is in good estate condition. Bernard Segal was from Cincinnatti, Ohio, where his father Alfred Segal was a noted columnist/editor/writer. Bernard Segal attended Cincinatti University, the Cincinatti Art Academy, and also studied at the Art Student League during the 1920s and 30s. Works from this period range from the Academic American School style, works that reflect the WPA style, and also Modernist pieces. During WWII, Segal worked as a cartoonist providing material for a GI paper called 10-SHUN that was published in Greensboro, NC. After the War, he authored a comic strip in the New York Herald Tribune called Honey and Hank, that tracked the domestic life of a GI after the WWII . During this time, he signed his cartoon strip SEEG . The strip was syndicated, and published in French in Canada under the name Louis and Louise . Segal also illustrated a number of books
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