Albert Pels Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas of Nude Figure

Item Details

An oil painting on unstretched canvas of a nude female figure by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998). This work features a nude brunette female figure holding drapery at her side and sitting against an ambiguous turquoise background. The painting is rendered in Pels’ signature style of bold delineated outlines and painterly expressionist brushstrokes. It is signed by the artist in green paint to the lower right and it remains unframed.

Sold to benefit a scholarship fund for the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Pels began his formal artistic training in his hometown at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1931. Upon graduating, Pels further pursued his artistic career and moved to New York, refining his technique while continuing his education at the Art Students League, working under the likes of historically renowned artists Thomas Hart Benton, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Alexander Brook. Pels went on to study at Beaux Arts and the American School, and in doing so established his distinctive, signature painting style and content for which he became recognized.

Condition

- wear and nail punctures around outer edges of canvas from a previous stretching; rips and fraying throughout edges of canvas.

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Item #

16CIN650-031