AARON SHIKLER (1922-2015) Piano Number Three 18 1/8 x 14...

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA
AARON SHIKLER (1922-2015)
Piano Number Three
signed and dated 'Shikler '74' (lower right)
oil on gessoed board
18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (46 x 35.9 cm.)
Painted in 1974.

Footnotes

Provenance
Davis & Long Company, New York, from the artist, by 1975.
David Rudolph Wintermann (1911-1997) and Eula Aurelia (née Goss) Wintermann (1912-2000), Eagle Lake, Texas, acquired from the above, December 4, 1975.
Estate of the above.
Sale, New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 21, 2007, lot 827, sold by the above.
Bernard Goldberg Fine Art, New York.
Sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, September 21, 2023, lot 296.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

Exhibited
New York, Davis & Long Company, Aaron Shikler: Recent Works, November 8-29, 1975.

The present work depicts the artist's wife, Barbara, seated at a piano in a corner of the Shiklers' apartment in Manhattan.