Saul Lishinsky Oil Painting "Sanitorium"
Item Details
Saul Lishinsky (New York, born 1922)
Sanitorium, mid-late 20th century
Oil painting on unstretched canvas
Unsigned
Titled is inscribed to the upper left of canvas margin
Illegible inscription in graphite to the lower left to the canvas verso
Presented unframed
A mid-late 20th century oil painting on unstretched canvas titled Sanitarium by listed New York artist Saul Lishinsky (born 1922). The work depicts a partially abstracted interior scene comprised of a seated patient surrounded by doctors, rendered with gestural brushstrokes and muted pigments. This composition was created as a self-portrait by the artist while he was interned at that time in a sanitorium. The piece is unsigned and titled to the upper left of the canvas margin. The composition is presented unframed.
Saul Lishinsky was born in the Bronx in 1922. He studied at the Arts Students League in New York City and in Provincetown with Hans Hoffman. Lishinsky returned to New York after serving in WWII and began painting again with the help and encouragement of his cousin Abraham Lishinsky, a noted WPA artist. Lishinsky went on to hold nine one-man shows and founded the Bronx Community Murals as a community project. Lishinsky seldom sold his art while he was alive, however, in 2008 he moved into an nursing home and his studio of nearly seventy years was emptied and the contents were sold. Lishinsky’s mural can still be seen throughout the greater New York City area and also remains in private collections.
Condition
- wear, stains, fraying, discoloration, creases, and perforations due to previous storage throughout the margins of unstretched canvas; various tears, scatted areas of paint loss, discoloration, folding marks and overall wear throughout the composition.
Dimensions
- measures the extended unstretched canvas.
Item #
ITMG177499