Lot 1781
EUGENE BERMAN (Russian/American, 1899-1972)
WESTERN LANDSCAPE
Signed with initials, also inscribed E Berman/ Los Angeles 1950/ Western Landscape on a label on the backboard, watercolour with pen and black ink
31 x 41cm.
* Berman travelled to Italy in 1950 and saw his works in galleries alongside pictures by his heroes Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp. His art at that time was exploring themes of isolation, alienation and the surreal in dreamlike landscapes.
Provenance: A gift from Sir John Paul Getty, KBE (1932-2000) to the vendor, c.1970, when he was being treated in a London hospital
