Description: EXCEPTIONAL AND OUTSTANDING ANTIQUE REALISM IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY ESTEEMED ILLINOIS PORTRAIT PAINTER VIOLETTE G RICE. (French-American 1897- 1990). THIS WORK DEPICTS A CASUALLY DRESSED AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN SITTING AT THE DINING TABLE WITH A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEWSPAPER IN HAND. THIS MASTERFUL PAINTING CAPTURES A QUIET, INTIMATE MOMENT WITH SOFT NATURAL LIGHTING STREAMING THROUGH A WINDOW BEHIND HIM. HIS GAZE IS DIRECTED TOWARD THE VIEWER AS IF INTERRUPTED WHILE READING. THE THICKLY APPLIED OIL PAINTING BRINGS A TACTILE QUALITY TO THE PIECE, FROM THE MAN’S TEXTURED SKIN TO THE FOLDS OF HIS CLOTHING. THE DETAILS ARE SPOT-ON AND AMAZING. IT IS SIGNED AND DATED 1942 BY VIOLETTE RICE. GOOD OVERALL CONDITION. THERE’S WEAR TO THE FRAME AS SHOWN. DIMENSIONS: 38”W x 47”H DIMENSIONS WITHOUT THE FRAME: 34”W x 42”H Violette G. Rice (1897 - 1990) was active/lived in Illinois, California, Idaho / France. Violette Rice is known for Portrait and still life painting. Violette G. Rice Born: 1897 - Paris, France Died: 1990 - Nampa, Idaho Born May 19, 1897, in Paris, France, the daughter of Alfred and Martha Mestraud, she was raised and educated in France and England and came to the United States in 1914, settling near Chicago. Working as a milliner at first, she married Alexander C. Rice in May of 1920, and the couple made their home in Chicago, where she opened an art studio. Painting in oils and pastels, she did portraits and still lives. Rice studied with Wellington C. Reynolds and at the Palette and Chisel Club. She later became president of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists, the most significant art society in Chicago. She remained president of the No-Jury Society for several years before moving to Highland Park, Illinois. They then moved to California, where Mr. Rice died in 1959. Violette Rice moved to Nampa, Idaho, in 1981, where she died Thursday, Oct.18, 1990.
Price: 6500 USD
Location: Pasadena, California
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Artist: Violette G Rice
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Violette Rice
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Material: Canvas
Item Length: 38 in
Region of Origin: Illinois, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: Men
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1942
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 47 In
Style: Realism, Black Folk Art, Figurative Art, Impressionism
Theme: Portrait, Art, People
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Culture: Black African American Impressionist
Handmade: Yes
Item Width: 38 in
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
