Cesare Stea (ITALIAN / AMERICAN / NEW YORK / NEW JERSEY, CALIFORNIA, 1893-1960) original charcoal work on paper depicting the study of a "Mother and Daughter" seated on a chair in an interior scene. Signed "C. STEA" tolower right. Mounted in a gold painted wooden frame with fabric mat behind glass screen. Work on paper measures approx. 17" height x 11 1/4" width (43.2cm x 28.6cm) to sight. Measures approx. 23 1/2" height x 171/2" width (56.7cm x 44.5cm) overall with frame. About the Artist: Studied: NAD; CUA School; BAID; Grande Chaumière, Paris, with Anton Bourdelle, & with Hermon MacNeil, Sterling Calder; Italian-Am. AA; VictorSalvatore; Carle Heber; Anton Bourdelle. Exhibited: AIC, 1916; Salons of Am., 1922, 1925, 1931, 1934; S. Indp. A., 1923; PAFA Ann., 1924, 1944, 1948-50; CPLH; Hispanic Mus.; WFNY 1939; BM, 1941; MMA, 1942, 1951;WMAA, 1923-28, 1943; NAD, 1926 (prize); Montclair AM, 1933 (prize); Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (medal); Nat. Defense Soc. (prize); Am. Veterans Art Soc., 1952 (prize). Member: NSS; Sculptors Gld.; Am.

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