Description: This is a c. 1920's etching print likely of Margaret French by Jared French (see bio below). Jared French and Paul Cadmus, along with French's wife Margaret French, made up PaJaMa (as well as George Platt Lynes and George Tooker), and produced art while summering on Fire Island. This etching is originally from the collection of Roberto Giannotta, Jared French's long time lover and companion (1961-1988) who inherited French's possessions upon his passing. Measures 6.125" x 7.875". Slight discoloration. Mounting tape remnants on corners. See photos for condition. Yes, I do combine shipping. Additional shipping per item is 20% of the lower shipping cost [For example, if 2 items are purchased that have a $30 and $10 shipping cost each, the combined shipping cost becomes $32 for the 2 items]. If bidding/buying more than 1 item, please wait for an invoice with combined shipping before paying. Shipping cost is non-negotiable, please consider it when bidding/buying. I ship within 1 business day. Please make payment within 4 days of purchase. ** In no manner am I representing the sale of a digital image of the item or selling the rights to the image (copyright) to the buyer. The sale is for the physical object only and is original, not being newly reproduced. ** _____________________________ Jared French (February 4, 1905 – January 8, 1988) was an American painter who specialized in the medium of egg tempera. He was one of the artists attributed to the style of art known as magic realism along with contemporaries George Tooker and Paul Cadmus. Early life Born in Ossining, New York, French received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1925. Soon after this he met and befriended Paul Cadmus (1904–1999) in New York City, who became his lover. French persuaded Cadmus to give up commercial art for what he deemed, "serious painting". In 1930, while French and Cadmus were students together at New York's Art Students League, Italian artist Luigi Lucioni painted French in a painting entitled Jared French, that is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1994. Career During the late 1930s and early 1940s, French painted murals for the WPA. French's early paintings are eerie, colorful tableauxs of still, silent figures derived from Archaic Greek statues. His later work shows "a kind of classical biomorphism," strange, colorful, suggestive organic forms. Jungian psychology is thought to have played an important influence upon the dream-like imagery in the paintings of French's maturity. The highly stylized, archaic-looking figures in his paintings suggest that they are representative of the ancestral memory of all mankind, what Carl Jung called "the collective unconscious". French himself was never explicit about the sources of his imagery, although on a stylistic level, the influence of early Italian Renaissance paintings by such masters as Mantegna and Piero della Francesca is evident, as it is also in the work of both Tooker and Cadmus. On the level of content, he made only one, short, public statement regarding his intentions: "My work has long been concerned with the representation of diverse aspects of man and his universe. At first it was mainly concerned with his physical aspect and his physical universe. Gradually I began to represent aspects of his psyche, until in The Sea (1946) and Evasion (1947), I showed quite clearly my interest in man's inner reality." French entered the Mural and Easel Painting Section of the Public Works of Art Project, initiated by the Department of the Treasury in 1933, after which he produced murals for the post office in Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1938), and for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia (1939). Personal life In 1937, French married Margaret Hoening (died 1998), also an artist who was 15 years French's senior. For the next eight years Cadmus and the Frenches summered on Fire Island and formed a photographic collective called PaJaMa ("Paul, Jared, and Margaret"). In between Provincetown, Truro, Fire Island, and New York, they staged various black and white photographs of themselves with their friends, both nude and clothed. Most of these friends featured in the photographs were among New York's young artists, dancers and writers, and most were handsome and gay. In 1938, French and Cadmus posed for a series photographs with the noted photographer George Platt Lynes (1907–1955). These photographs were not published or exhibited while Lynes was living and show the intimacy and relationship of the two. In the photographs, 14 of which survive today, the subjects, Cadmus and French, vacillate between exposure and concealment, with French generally being the more exhibitionist of the two. Cadmus stated that French was the model for all four male figures in his 1935 painting, Gilding the Acrobats, as well as his 1931 painting, Jerry. In addition, French modeled as John Smith for Camdus' mural in 1938, Pocahontas Rescued Captain John Smith at the Richmond Parcel Post Building. Later in the 1940s, French and his wife formed a complicated relationship with Cadmus and Cadmus' then lover, George Tooker (1920–2011). When French and his wife bought a home in Hartland, Vermont, they gave Cadmus a house of his own on the property. French later took the house back and gave it to his Italian lover. French died in Rome in 1988 and many of his paintings remain with his friend, Roberto Gianatta. Get images that make Supersized seem small. THE simple solution for eBay sellers.
Price: 350 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2025-01-13T20:21:03.000Z
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Type: Etching
