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Mandarin Beauty And Butterflies

Artist:Otto Hake
Date:1920 - 1925
Medium:Oil on stretched canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 23 1/8" by 30" Framed 31 1/8" by 38"
Condition:Very good with craquelure spidering lines in the sheen
Original Use:Fine Art
Price: Sold
Full view of oil on canvas painting
Full view of oil on canvas painting

 

The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
Frame corner profile detail
Frame corner profile detail

 

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A lovely tonalist oil on canvas painting by the well regarded Chicago area artist and muralist Otto Hake. An Orientalist beauty in traditional Mandarin attire frolics with butterflies in a California Redwood forest as a rider approaches in the left side of this evocative scene. The painting is signed in the lower right corner and is still housed in its original wide profile antique gesso gold frame.
Hake immigrated from Ulm, Germany at the age of 14 and settled in Chicago, Hake, throughout his career, was closely associated with the Palette and Chisel Club, an organization of artists supporting themselves with commercial work while pursuing fine-art aspirations. He held a membership in the cities Palette and Chisel club from 1905 to 1957; he died in 1965. The artist exhibited frequently in the 1920s, and his mural work adorns several of Chicago’s surviving preserved historic buildings. Hake was also involved and active with the WPA project during the 30s.

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Framed view in original wide profile antique frame
Framed view in original wide profile antique frame

 

Verso view of old pine stretchers and untouched canvas
Verso view of old pine stretchers and untouched canvas

Mandarin Beauty And Butterflies

Artist: Otto Hake
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, asian, chicago, orientalist, Otto Hake, Redwood Forest, Tonalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: March 10, 2015

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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