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Lucile Blanch
Circus Acrobats - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )

1934

$30,000
£22,657.77
€26,527.05
CA$42,621.45
A$43,361.82
CHF 24,850.66
MX$522,103.23
NOK 290,458.26
SEK 291,732.99
DKK 198,313.52

About the Item

As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of expressions. Painted during the peak of the "American Regionalism" movement, the painting gives insight into what was most likely a small itinerant circus. Lucile Blanch completed the painting a year after she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1933 and a few years before she worked with artist Philip Evergood and George Picken in administrating the WPA Project in New York. Signed lower right. Framed size 42 x 32
  • Creator:
    Lucile Blanch (1895 - 1981, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1934
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Good, Relined. There is a five-inch crease in the upper left quadrant that has been conserved and is mostly visible on close inspection - Some slight fading and desaturation of color, but it presents quite well under top gallery light.
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU385313927632

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