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This is an original painting by Leo Garel on heavy paper. It was most likely done in the 1940s/early 50s when he was in Taos, New Mexico. The painting measures 19 1/4" x 23 3/4", and is signed "Garel" on the bottom right. The piece is in wonderful condition, with only minor wear and tear around the edges.
Leo Garel, born in Brooklyn in 1917,
never doubted he would spend his life as an artist. Garel attended Parsons School of Design,
then won a scholarship to the New York School of Fine and Applied Art.
He also studied at the Art Students League, where his teachers were
George Grosz and Vaclav Vytlacil. In the 1940s he traveled to
New Mexico. Garel's work also caught the eye of the ailing Alfred
Stieglitz before he died. Always the enterprising art dealer, Stieglitz
observed, "Handsome, very handsome," after studying Garel's paintings,
Mabel Dodge recalled in her book Taos and its Artists. In the
1940s and early 1950s Garel exhibited at the legendary Blue Door
Gallery and at Galeria Escondida in Taos. He was included in Museum of
New Mexico regional shows of that era. In 1952 Garel's focus
turned east again, and he began showing at the Mortimer Levitt Gallery
in New York and, beginning in 1957, at Zabriskie in New York. A
decade later, a major exhibition of 35 Garel paintings was mounted at
the Cober Gallery in New York City. In the catalogue of that 1967 show
the art historian, Hellmut Wohl cited the structural and philosophical
resonances that he saw between Garel's paintings and those of the
German Expressionist Emil Nolde and of Paul Klee, pronouncing it a
shared subtlety of inflection and musicality. In the succeeding decades
Garel lived and worked in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.
Encouraged by his friendship with the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson,
who himself had worked as a painter, Garel was a pioneer and an
innovator in art psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center in
Stockbridge, MA. Garel taught painting and continued to exhibit
actively until his death in 1999. Leo Garel's work is in public
collections including the National Museum of American Art at the
Smithsonian, National Academy of Design in New York, the Harwood Museum
in Taos, New York University Art Museum, Norfolk Art Museum, Roswell
Art Museum, Museum of New Mexico, and in corporate collections such as
Chase Manhattan Bank and Marine Midland Bank.
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Q: Hello. I am interested in this painting (Garel) as well as the Dietemann and the Hoppin. Do you happen to have any digital photos other than those posted on ebay that may have higher resolution. If so, and it is not too much... Continue reading A: Hi Rick, thanks for the interest! I am in New York currently on
business, so I won't be able to send any additional photos (a
request I would gladly accommodate were I at home). It is
unknown to me how the Dietemann... Continue reading
Sep 22, 2009
Q: Do you have any of his New Mexico paintings? A: Hello, I don't believe that I have any of his more Expressionistic paintings of New Mexico or Taos. This painting was most likely executed when he was beginning to be more influenced by Klee's work, applying and... Continue reading
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