July 14 & 15, 2020 Fine & Decorative Arts
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2020
On reverse is a label from Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York and Whistler's Daughter Art Gallery in New Jersey. A trompe l'oeil painting of a fireplace vignette including a pair of bellows, an oil can and a set of fireplace implements against a plaster background. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Kenneth Davies became a noted still-life painter and long-time art teacher, living in Madison, Connecticut. He attended the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston, and after two years in the Army, studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1950. His teaching career began at the Whitney School of Art and continued at the Paier School in New Haven, Connecticut where he served as Dean. A reviewer in Art Digest, wrote: "Kenneth Davies' trompe l'oeil* paintings exhibit a visual observation so acute and a technical handling so precise that the spectator is not willing to give up the illusion that he can actually grasp a pencil or tear a piece from a torn envelope until he is within a foot of the canvas."
Item Dimensions: Frame: 43 - 1/4" x 37" x 2".
Artist
KEN DAVIES (CONNECTICUT, MASSACHUSETTS, BORN 1925).
Signature
Signed lower right "Ken Davies".