The
following description has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts
S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans
& Kenyon
Note 1) The following Schattenstein
biographical data is taken from the Artprice.com website:
Birth place: Poniemon,
Russia
Death place: Port
Chester, NY
Addresses: NYC
Profession: Portrait
painter
Studied: Vienna
Akad.
Exhibited: Salons
of Am.; S. Indp. A., 1925, 1932-34, 1937-41; MMA, 1942; AIC, 1943; Wildenstein
Gal.; AFA, 1945-46; Int. Expo, Vienna (gold); Nat. War Poster Comp., 1942
(prize); Paris (prize); All. Artists Am., 1951 (prize); City of Salzburg
(prize); Prix de Rome.
Member: All.
Artists Am.; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Knight Cross of the Francis Josef Order.
Work: Nat.
Mus., Krakow, Poland; Army Mus., Vienna; PMA; BMFA; Court of Appeals, Albany,
NY; Supreme Court, Raleigh, NC; Court House, Winston-Salem, NC; New York
Univ."
In addition, per Askart.com,
Schattenstein was best known for his genre paintings, figural studies and
portraits. He exhibited additionally at the Art Institute of Chicago, National
Academy of Design and Society of Independent Artists, and he was also a member
of the Salons of America and the Society of Independent Artists.
Note
2) This painting is a well-executed, sensitive, sympathetic, but realistic
study of "An Old Salt," who almost certainly had been fisherman his
entire and very hard life, the effects of which, Schattenstein understands and
depicts on his wrinkled, aged face and large bony worker's hands, his heavily
used and wrinkled clothing, and the slight stoop in the fisherman's shoulders,
as he sits for his portrait with a somewhat quizzical look on his face.
Schattenstein also depicts the Old Salt's Spartan, no frills existence by
painting him seated on a hard wooden bench in a corner of his cottage, amidst
its bare walls and cobble stone floor, upon which the fruit of his hard day's
labor, a basket of fish, reposes by his side on the cobblestone floor. This
painting is very large, in good condition and attractively framed. The
foregoing considerations; the above Schattenstein biographical information; and
the following auction records regarding Schattenstein sales warrant the
conclusion that the presale estimate of $2,000-$5,000 is reasonable and
justifiable. The highest auction price ever paid for a Schattenstein painting
was $18,750 on 12/19/2007.
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Title/Subject: Portrait of
Elizabeth Burke Signed. Oil on canvas. 24.72 in. x 19.49 in. sold for $2,219
on 07/10/2008 at Christie's London, South Kensington
Title/Subject: A Mother's Pride
Signed. Oil on canvas. 27.50 in. x 37.38 in. sold for $18,750 on 12/19/2007
at Sotheby’s, NY
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