Have one like this?
Upload a photo for a free check of what yours may be worth.
Lot description
Clinton King (1901-1979) American artist, born in Fort Worth, Texas and received his formal education at the University of Texas and Princeton. He studied painting from Randall Davey and Robert Reid and gained early recognition in Texas at the Annual Texas Artists Exhibitions. He is generally associated with the regional art of Texas and the Santa Fe Art Colony of New Mexico until 1940. After 1940 and in to the 1960s, he exhibited often in Chicago, New York and Paris. King painted genre scenes, landscapes, portraits and still life. His early modernist portraits and genre were often compared to Diego Rivera. King was a modernist, and a Renaissance man of the art world, whose styles included Realism, Impressionism, and Abstract Expressionism at various periods in his 40 years of artistic activity. During his lifetime, King's paintings won many prizes and are held in many public collections, including: the Library of Congress; National Collection of Fine Art; New York Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art; and the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris. Offered here is his engraving with aquatint titled HELLAS, done in 1974, image approx. 17-1/2 x 21-3/4 in. plus margins. This is an artist proof numbered XXV over XXV. Still contained in its original mat. The image area is very fine; there are a few light spots in the margin close to the image, and just below the signature area. See scan below. This is a major intaglio and one of the largest we have ever offered. An important print.