Burton Silverman : Portrait of a standing man, 1966 (Charcoal)
By DAMIANO Bernard (1926–2000)
Burton Silverman (b. 1928)
Portrait of a standing man (possibly Yves Guérin himself), 4 1966
Charcoal
Dedicated, signed and dated by hand, lower right: “pour Yves Guérin avec beaucoup de plaisir, Burt Silverman, artiste peintre américain, 4 Décembre 1966”
Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: nearly the full sheet
Condition: good condition, unframed
Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). The sheet is the album’s American chapter — a visiting United States realist who inscribed himself “artiste peintre américain.”
Description: An accomplished standing portrait of a distinguished man seen three-quarter, one hand in his pocket, modelled in charcoal with soft stumping and luminous reserved highlights — possibly a portrait of the collector Yves Guérin himself. Burton Silverman is one of America’s leading contemporary realist painters and illustrators, born in Brooklyn in 1928 and trained at Columbia, the Art Students League and Pratt; a master draughtsman, he is held in the Metropolitan Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Library of Congress, and is widely known for the “Aqualung” album cover and his Montgomery bus-boycott drawings. Signed, dedicated and dated by hand.
Price : 600,00 € ( 683.00 USD )
