Gino (Eugene F.) HOLLANDER (American, b. 1924)
Three men wearing hats standing outside an archway
Drawing, pen and black ink and grey wash, signed and dated “7.69 Hollander,”
on cream wove drawing tablet paper, 9-3/8 x 12-1/2 in. (240 x 318 mm), hinged
to a beige mat, 13-3/8 x 16-1/2 in. (340 x 412 mm).
Unframed; hinged to the mount at each of the four corners verso; the sheet slightly skinned around the edges verso; the perforations detached on left edge. With a brass plate engraved “To Julius Held / From Your Students / June 1970” taped to mount verso.
Gino Hollander, having fermented in the 1950’s must of the West Village’s Cedar Bar, uprooted himself and his family in a chispa de la vida, “guts and/or stupidity” move to Marbella in the south of Spain in 1962. This drawing, suffused with Spanish light, was a gift to Professor Held from his students in 1970 shortly before his long tenure wound down at the Barnard College Art History Department.
Provenance:
Julius S. Held (JSH blindstamp verso lower right; inventory number “TR
193/80” on mount verso lower right).
Christie’s New York, sale 2249, January 30, 2009, “The Scholar's
Eye: Property from the Julius Held Collection Part II,” lot 374 (labels
on mount verso).
Price: $1,500
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