Original Listed Impressionist NYC Washington Square Park Oil Painting Modern!!!

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Original Listed Impressionist NYC Washington Square Park Oil Painting Modern!!! Description You are viewing a stunning snow scene by Leon Dolice depicting the iconic Washington Square Park in NYC. This piece has all the best qualities of Dolice's work, and is one of the finest examples created by him that I have come across. Note on Pictures: Please Artist: Leon Louis Dolice (1892 - 1960) Medium: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed "Dolice" Circa: 1930 Size of Piece: Approximately 36" x 30" Framed and 30" x 24" Unframed Frame Information: This pieces comes in a complimentary white washed modern wood frame, possibly original to the painting. Condition: This piece is in excellent original condition Auction Records: Dolice acheived a high record of $5,200 in March of 2008 Auction House: Swann Galleries Auction Date: 03/06/2008 Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 Price Realized: $5,200 Auction House: Swann Galleries Auction Date: 11/09/2009 Auction Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500 Price Realized: $1,560 Gallery Listings/Exhibitions: Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk Artists' Association; Montauk, NY and at Tribeca Gallery New York City. An exhibition of his works on paper was held from February 28 to March 14, 2003 at the Belleclaire Hotel at 250 West 77th Street and Broadway in New York City. Featuring historic street and landmark scenes of New York City created from 1920 through 1952, it was held as a tribute to New York, which had been sharply in the world's focus following the events of the previous six months. Artist's Biography: The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts. However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters. As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan. A decline in popular favor for etching... read more

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