Bill Schiffer 1966 Oil Painting

Item Details

A painting on canvas by New York artist Bill Schiffer (Contemporary). This work depicts a portrait of a man with pale, yellow-tinted skin and short brown hair and uses a thick application of paint. It is signed to the lower center and dated ‘2/66’. The work is presented as an unframed, stretched canvas.

Born in New York, Bill Schiffer rose to prominence as a painter and sculptor in the early 1980s. Though he still works in many two dimensional and three dimensional art mediums, Schiffer is most well known for his unique handcrafted jewelry, which he started designing after a foray experimenting with wearable art in the fashion scene. Bill Schiffer’s art and jewelry has been shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, as well as major museums in Italy, Japan, Germany and the United States. His work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Women’s Wear Daily, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan.

Condition

- light wear to edges and corners; light surface wear; minor inpainting to forehead; paint worn toward edges.

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Item #

17NYC160-131