Up for sale from a recent client in Honolulu this 1930s US Expressionist Oil on canvas painting that is titled “Clown & Ballerina” and is painted by well known New York artist Paul Meltsner (1905–1966). The signature is in pencil as Meltsner signed it between his door and the moving truck (see the history below).
My clients moved into the same neighborhood in which the artist lived in 1960s New York. When they moved in he moved out of the City he offered my clients this and other of his paintings.

Measurements:
Canvas 24 inches x 30 inches

More information about the artist:
Paul Raphael Meltsner was born in New York City in 1905. A native New Yorker, Mr. Meltsner attended Flushing High School and graduated in 1922. He became closely associated with the WPA, enjoying the support given artists during the Great Depression and in 1938 a New York City gallery offered him a one-man exhibition.

Mr. Meltsner is well known for his his industrial scenes depicting urban scenes and in the mid 1930's he expanded his genre and began to paint portraits of actors and performers including Carmen Miranda, Lynn Fontanne, Martha Graham, Dorothy Stickney and Gertrude Lawrence.

His work is included in major museum collections across the country including The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work was also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mr. Meltsner died in 1966.
. “Painting was cleaned and conserved, it had to be relined, the frame is nothing special”

Original/Reproduction: Original

Style: Expressionism

Listed By: Dealer or Reseller

Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)

Signed?: Signed

Date of Creation: 1900-1949

Medium: Oil

Region of Origin: US

Subject: Figures & Portraits.


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