Untitled (Portrait of Mozart, to the Viewer's Left)

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Untitled (Portrait of Mozart, to the Viewer’s Left)

Joseph Solman

Framed size: 13.5 in. (h) x 16.5 in. (w) x 1 in. (d)

$1,400.00

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Decorative Accent, Earth Tones, Figurative, Framed, Mid-Century Style, Music, Portraits and People, Post-War Twentieth Century, Prints & Multiples, Serigraph (Silkscreen), Social Commentary and History, Solman

About the work

Joseph Solman worked for a time in shipyards in New Jersey after the Pearl Harbor strike. In the evenings, as a relief from the dry precision of his work as a draftsman for Pratt and Whitney, he embarked on a long-dreamed-of project: “imaginative sketches of my idol in music, Mozart.” With the expert help of the artist Leonard Pytlak (whose works can be found at the Smithsonian, among other fine museums), Solman created silkscreens of his best twelve. These silkscreens were technically and artistically tours de force. Some of them were printed with as many as 16 different colors, they all avoided the dry, flat look that predominated silkscreen in the 1940s. Elegant and linear in diagram, the portraits range from the droll to the intimate and abstract. Rarely does a silkscreen present as painterly as does this magnificent portrait.

Attributes	Value
Medium	Print, Serigraph in Colors
Date	1940-1950
Framing	Custom framed and matted using conservation materials
Condition	Excellent Condition
Signing, Dating, and Titling	Signed in the plate
Type	Modern Print-Makers, Washington Artists