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One of three examples by Lehman in the sale.

Large original work on paper by New York WPA artist Irving G. Lehman of a street corner with figures before skyscrapers circa his late 1930\'s to early 1940\'s Modernist period when he lived above a jazz club in Greenwich Village before moving to Brooklyn circa WWII.

LEHMAN, Irving George (Russian/American, 1900-1983): Urban Street Scene with Figures before Skyscrapers, circa late 1930\'s to early 1940\'s, watercolor and gouache en grisaille (shades of gray), 19\" x 25\", unsigned, 1983 Estate stamped verso, artist material supplier's blindstamp to one corner. Unmatted and unframed.

Provenance: This work was acquired from an heir of one of Lehman\'s relatives who lived and worked in the Greater New York area.

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LEHMAN, Irving George (Russian / American 1900-1983). Painter, sculptor, printmaker and mixed media artist. Came to New York from Russia as a young man and had studios in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Studied at Cooper Union and National Academy of Design. One-man shows of both painting and sculpture at ACA Galleries in early 1930’s. Worked as a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist during the Depression. Member of American Art Congress, worked near Woodstock and in Columbia County, NY and visited Rockport, MA & Mexico. Subjects include Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island, Central Park, Greenwich Village, Camp Lexington in the Catskills and Jewish themes, as well as both Social Realist and Constructivist influenced figures. Lehman exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago ( AIC ), Brooklyn Museum, National Academy of Design ( NAD ), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ( PAFA ) Museum of Fine Arts, Bezalel, Israel as well as in Paris, France, Japan and elsewhere. His oeuvre includes periods of considerable Constructivist, Ecole de Paris, Social Realist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Regionalist, Judaic and Russian interest. Lehman signed in both cursive and printed letters throughout his career. The artist’s date of death is variously recorded as 1981, 1982 & 1983 (the correct date is ‘83). There are several recognized Lehman estate stamps including "Red Rock Studio," a signature stamp and "Estate of" (as 1900-1982 as well as 1900-1983) as after the death of his wife (artist Martha Lehman) his art was dispersed to 11 heirs through numerous exhibitions and auctions in Manhattan, upstate N.Y., New England, Florida and Canada during the 1990’s.

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Sound original estate condition, no tears detected, one long diagonal very light crease along the top edge visible almost entirely only from the reverse, wave horizontally through middle that will flatten down with any matting, concentration of rippling and small creasing to one corner, unmated and unframed.