1948 BENJAMIN KOPMAN RUSSIAN AMERICAN WPA EXPRESSIONIST Signed Orig Oil / Canvas
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Listed Russian born, American Artist, Benjamin D. Kopman*, Signed this 1948 Original Expressionist Portrait depicting 2 Drinking Figures- one seems to be consoling the other, possibly offering him drink - touching. The artist signed on upper left of canvas and also en verso (on the back) and dated it as well - 1948. Remarkable brushstrokes and bold use of color.
Mid Century Expressionism at its best!
Canvas measures 25 X 30 and is in Good condition. As is apparent, this pai...nting has craquelure (a network of fine cracks in the paint or varnish) but the paint is stable and not flaking.
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*Benjamin D. Kopman (1887-1965) Painter and print-maker Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia., and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1903. In 1905 Kopman enrolled at the National Academy of Art where he remained for 6 semesters. His first major exhibition was at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1914, followed by several others during the 1920's. Kopman worked for the WPA as an artist during the Depression and had solo exhibitions in the late 1930's and 1940's. His paintings and prints are distinctive for their primitive character and their use of heavy black outlines that suggest the influence of Rousseau and Roualt.
Kopman’s work is held in the collections of many institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He illustrated the Book of the Month Club edition of Crime and Punishment and Frankenstein. In 1945, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Philadelphia Academy. Although unpublished, Mr. Kopman was also a writer and poet.
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