When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Arthur Lerner Self-Portrait, 1980.
Red conte chalk on paper. 12 inches x 10 inches.
Signed and dated en verso in pencil “A Lerner ‘80”.
Lerner was a noted member of the Chicago-based artisticgroup dubbed The Monster Roster. “The Monster Roster was an influential groupof figurative artists active in Chicago in the 1950s and 60s. This collectiveof artists challenged the traditional artistic norms of the time and created aunique style that was both provocative and haunting.”
Prominent members: Robert Barnes, Don Baum, FredBerger, Cosmo Campoli, George Cohen, Dominick Di Meo, Leon Golub (a foundingmember), Theodore Halkin, June Leaf, Arthur Lerner, Irving Petlin, SeymourRosofsky, Franz Schulze, Nancy Spero, Evelyn Statsinger, H. C. Westermann.
The term was first coined in 1959 by artist andwriter Franz Schulze, who drew inspiration for the moniker partly from thedark, grotesque style of the artwork and partly from the Chicago Bears (the\"Monsters of the Midway\")
Provenance: Tom Palazzolo, Oak Park, Illinois (giftfrom the artist)
“After artist friend Murray Simon died, his brotherasked if I\'d pick up his unused canvas\'s. I delivered them to Arther for hisuse. As a thank you, Arthur gave me the self portrait.”
See my other sales of Chicago artists, including Tom Palazzolo, John F. Miller, more ---rare museum and photography and the Ford Gresham Collection.
