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AUCTION 51: A NEW YORK ART AND COLLECTIBLES SALE
Lot 85:
Arbit Blatas, Lithuanian, French, 1908 to 1999, collection of four color lithographs on paper depicting theatre genre scenes, the Beggars Opera, and the portraits of actors from the Three Penny Opera.
Each is signed in pencil, lower right, and numbered in pencil, Artist Proof, lower left.
Arbit Blatas, born Nicolai Arbitblatas, was an artist and sculptor of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Mr. Blatas, a Lithuanian-born member of the School of Paris, attended the operas’ premiere in Berlin in 1928 and based his paintings on a 1950s revival at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village. The production starred Weill’s widow, Lotte Lenya, and included Ed Asner, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Stiller and Jo Sullivan Loesser. Many of the actors are recognizable in the paintings.
Dimensions: 20 x 13 in., (50.8 x 33 cm.)
Condition: Perfect.
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