Louis Spiegel Clown Portrait Oil Painting

Item Details

Louis Spiegel (Ohio, 1901 – 1975)
Untitled (portrait)
Oil painting on canvas board
Signed to lower right

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

- scattered accretion; light scratching to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 15.5" W x 19.5" H.

Item #

ITMG004250