Multiple Frans Hals

Date:	1963
Medium:	Oil on canvas
Size inches:	48 x 36
Size cm:	101.6 x 91.4
Signature:
Location:	Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Gift of Robert C. Scull, December 1981.Accession Number: 1981.2954.

Reference
Frans Hals, Malle Babbe, 1633-35, Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin

George Deem (Allan Stone Gallery; to Nov. 9) is superbly able to lift from his subjects their face values and carry out his own purposes with a beautiful disregard for the historical demands. Recent work concerns master paintings, not as pop art, but, traditionally, as subjects. The Hals lady with tankard and owl is repeated six times and has six distinct and inventive statements to make about color, light, jokes, paintings. A Painting for a Library, a warm grisaille synthesis of every nineteenth-century Greco-Roman Information Desk portrait, looks at the toga-set in coffee-break attitudes and makes mock of style and subject directly yet marvelously. Deem is not content with parody, but builds a taut luminous painting to complete his image of himself. His Degas', Corots, English portraitists are born with their own beginnings as Deem paints a new work every time with sensitive, serious dynamics. (Prices: $150-$650.) (Valerie Petersen, ArtNews, New York, October 1963).

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Exhibition date:	October 22 - November 9, 1963
Works Shown:	A Painting for Libraries Calligraphy of Henry Raeburn, The Double Dutch Landscape Multiple Frans Hals Multiple Portrait of Lee Guilliatt