Edgar Yaeger Original Gouache Painting on Paper

Item Details

An original gouache painting on paper by well-listed American artist Edgar Yaeger (1904-1997). The painting depicts a central draped table containing several objects and standing on a checkered floor. Drapes fall to either side in the background. It is signed in graphite to the lower left. Presented in white matting and wrapped in acetate.

Known for his modern abstract style and his WPA murals of the Depression era, Yaeger was influenced by European modernists such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Giorgio de Chirico. Yaeger’s work has been exhibited at many institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others.

Condition

-toning to paper, paper is wrinkled

Dimensions

-measures mat, visible image measures 8.0" wd. × 9.25″ ht.

Item #

16CIN997-746