Modern British Art
Modern British Art
Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Lucien Dessau
Self-Portrait
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November 24, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Lucien Dessau
1909-1999
Self-Portrait
signed Paul Dessau and dated '40 (lower left); inscribed The Tired Fireman — After Surrey Dock September 1940 (upper left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 61 by 48.5cm.; 24 by 19in.
framed: 76.5 by 64cm.; 30 by 25in.
Executed in 1940.
The English Speaking Union, by whom gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1942
'London's Firemen Artists,' Magazine of Art, Vol. 34, London, August - September 1941, illustrated p. 369
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 126
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings, Chicago, 1980, no. 3E5, p. 65
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 126
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings, Chicago, 1980, no. 3E5, p. 65
London, Central School of Arts and Crafts, The Fireman Artists of London: An Exhibition of Pictures (details untraced)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 18 July - 10 August 1941, no. 25 (as The Great Fire of London, 1940)
Ottawa, Canadian War Museum, Autumn 1941
New York, Museum of the City of New York, The Firefighters of London in Action, 11 November - 8 December 1941, no. 25, illustrated in the catalogue
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 18 July - 10 August 1941, no. 25 (as The Great Fire of London, 1940)
Ottawa, Canadian War Museum, Autumn 1941
New York, Museum of the City of New York, The Firefighters of London in Action, 11 November - 8 December 1941, no. 25, illustrated in the catalogue