Louis Spiegel Clown Portrait Oil Painting

Item Details

Louis Spiegel (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1901 – 1975)
Untitled (clown portrait), 1966
Oil on board
Signed to the lower right
Signature and date inscribed to the verso

Spiegel was quoted as saying, “I don’t just paint the clown, I paint the soul. Sometimes I wonder, who’s the clown, him or me? I think what I love about this fellow is that he knows himself for what he is.”

Condition

- board width is slightly shorter that the frame; wear and abrasions to frame.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame.
- sight measures 15.5″×19.5″.

Item #

ITMG415115