LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on paper

Size Notes:

sheet: 55.24 x 80.64 cm

Description:

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Markings:

With their stamp in left margin; Signed "Corcos" in lower right image; Two small soil spots in upper right image

Condition:

Hinged to matte

Exhibited:

Her work was exhibited widely by the 1930s and appeared in numerous Whitney Biennials as well as exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the British Museum among other prestigious institutions Her best-known illustrations show highly detailed composite urban and suburban scenes as viewed from the outside, often from a high angle, such as in this lot The observer generally views these scenes only from the outside and in passing; Corcos turns them inside-out before the eye of the viewer The work is literally 'revealing.' As such, it is touching, witty, and thoroughly delightful to contemplate Though Corcos paid little heed to conventions of scale and perspective, her work is far from abstract, and her renderings are painterly and nuanced--Marc Michael Epstein, Lucille Corcos 1908-1973, Jewish Women's Archive.