This is a signed original painting on paper by noted artist Nathan Gluck (American 1918-2008).The Modernist collage style painting featuring a figure with a bird on his shoulder. Inscribed "for Marshall & Kay- Nathan 1979". Signed in pencil lower right with dates of making: 7-31-79 to 9-22-78. This painting comes directly from the Marshall and Kay Lee estate of Upstate New York.
Born in New Jersey, Gluck was an artist, designer and illustrator who achieved acclaim as Andy Warhol’s principle studio assistant from the early 1950s through the mid-1960s in Warhol’s pre-Pop commercial art studio. Gluck played an instrumental role in helping to shape and create many of Warhol’s most famous illustrations and designs as well as his early transitional Pop pieces. He also quietly devoted his life to exploring the art of collage, creating a number of distinct bodies of work over a period of 70 years, beginning in the late 1930s until his passing in 2008. He was the quintessential cosmopolitan New Yorker, charming and erudite, and part of the first generation of LGBT artists that rose to prominence after World War II and helped transform New York City into the gay metropolis of the late 20th century.

From the Upstate New York estate of Marshall and Kay Lee. Marshall was a well known collector of Pre-Columbian pottery and a talented and well-respected book designer in the publishing industry.
The frame is 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 1 3/8". The painting is 11 3/4 x 8 7/8"

Hinged at the top two corners with archival tape to the frame backing board. Many pinholes to the corners and edges.