Works Under $25,000
Homeward Bound
Alfred S. Mira (1900 - 1980)
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: mira
20 x 24 inches
Signed lower right: mira
Provenance
Grand Central Galleries, New York, New York
Private collection, Vermont
Sale, Shannon’s, Milford, Connecticut, October 24, 2024, lot 4
Related Work
Before Noon, 1940s, oil on canvas, 26 x 31 ¼ inches; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
Note
“Mira works magic in street scenes with melodramatic shafts of light across busy thoroughfares…[His work is] sound, traditional painting that might be called impressionistic realism.”[1]
[1] Howard Devree, “Among the New Exhibitions,” New York Times, February 25, 1945, X8.
