June 18-19, 2019 Fine & Decorative Arts
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/19/2019
Titled on stretcher and bearing a Bernheim-Jeune, Paris exhibition label affixed to stretcher which reads "EXPOSITION VINCIATO DU OCTOBRE 1958 AU."
Joseph Wallace King, who exhibited and signed his works “Vinciata”, was born in 1911 on a Virginia plantation. His art career took off when he befriended Charles Babcock, the husband of Mary Reynolds, the daughter of tobacco tycoon R.J. Reynolds. Charlie took a special interest in Joe and introduced him to Victor Hammer, director of Hammer Galleries in New York. Victor guided Joe to the right galleries in Europe where he could exhibit his new Vinciata style of painting, including the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery who offered him a one man show in Paris. The exhibition was a great success and “Vinciata” was launched. The following year an exhibition was arranged at the Hammer Galleries in New York and for the next twenty years Joe exhibited exclusively for Hammer.
Item Dimensions: Framed: 30 -1/2" x 26 -3/4" x 1 -3/4".
Artist
JOSEPH WALLACE KING (American, 1911-1996)
Frame
Vintage carved whitewashed frame
Work Size
23-1/2" x 19-1/2"
Condition
Very good, with some surface grime and several small abrasions.