Sold for:
$10,400
$10,400
oil on panel 50 x 80 cm (19 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. ) signed lower right : Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 2008, lot 68 Born in Lithuania, Arbit Blatas was a precocious talent who began exhibiting in his native country at the age of 15. He left for Paris and, at the age of 21, became the youngest member of the School of Paris. When Blatas was 24, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris first acquired some of his paintings; he had already become a colleague and friend of many of the great figures of the Paris art world, such as Vlaminck, Soutine, Picasso, Utrillo, Braque, Zadkine, Léger and Derain.
Auctioneer:
Shapiro Auctions
Date:
2015-02-28
