Lot 1163
Clarence Millet, A.N.A. (American/Louisiana, 1897-1959), "A Lower Manhattan Street Corner in the Rain", 1922/1924, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 12 in. x 16 in., period coved frame of Modernist design Note: A native of Hahnville, Millet came to New Orleans in 1917 to work with Robert Grafton and Louis Oscar Griffith, who were painting their celebrated murals in the lobby of the St. Charles Hotel. From 1922 to 1924 Millet studied at the Art Students' League in New York City, before returning in the latter year to New Orleans, where he worked for the rest of his life. The combination of these facts, with the Gimbels Department Store stencil on the reverse of this canvas board, very strongly supports the hypothesis that this bold and innovative painting was executed in New York during those formative years. Indeed the depicted cityscape seems to bear this out, with the broad "avenue" at left intersected by a typically narrower "side street" in the foreground. The unassuming commercial scene itself appears to fit this interpretation: the size and character of the buildings, their awnings and signage, the flickering images...
- Notes: Starting bid: 1700
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