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Alfred S. Mira (1900 - 1980)
Oil on canvas
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.

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