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Self Portrait with Cigar by George Benjamin Luks

Self Portrait with Cigar by George Benjamin Luks

Self Portrait with Cigar

George Benjamin Luks

Title

Self Portrait with Cigar

 
Artist

George Benjamin Luks

  1867 - 1933
Year
1894  
Technique
drawing 
Image Size
4 13/16 x 3 1/4" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
 
Annotations
verso: “depicts Luks in Costume/Philadelphia Press Art Dept. party April 1894 
Reference
 
Paper
delicate tan wove 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
17616 
Price
SOLD
Description
This self portrait by Luks was done at the Philadelphia Press Art Dept. party, April, 1894, the year Luks joined the staff. Luks worked as an artist/correspondent, characturist and comic strip artist. It was from the collection of noted Philadelphia art restorer and collector Pasquale Farina (1865 - c.1934) whose advertising included the assurances "No Chemicals Used - Dilapidated Paintings Safely Returned to Life..."