STUNNING DRAWING BY GERMAN AMERICAN MASTER EMIL GANSO "RECLINING FEMALE NUDE" - SIGNED - IMPORTANT PROVENANCE Start Price USD 950.00 Current Price USD 950.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, August 29, 2008 End Time Friday, September 05, 2008 Location New York, New York See more about 'STUNNING DRAWING BY GERMAN AMERICAN MASTER EMIL GANSO ' Description You are bidding on a fantastic original and rare Signed Crayon Drawing on paper by German/American Master Artist EMIL GANSO (1895-1941)   His works are collected by several museums, art galleries and private collectors worldwide. There are several links, notes and articles on the web about this amazing artist. Feel free to do your own search and learn more about his amazing life and art (artnet, artprice, etc) and search the web for the price on his art.   This Image has a very reasonable price in comparisson to the sales price records for the artist.   I bought this fantastic image at an Auction Power house in New York. Please email me if you wish to get more details about it.   This image is part of several rare important art images from a fantastic colletion I bought that I will be offering on ebay.   I have enclosed below an excellet biography about his life and art history.   Here are the details about this fantastic image:   EMIL GANSO (GERMAN/AMERICAN, 1895-1941)   Drawing - Crayon on Paper   "Reclining Female Nude"   Signed in Crayon "Ganso"  - (see photo)   Image:                        14" High x 22” Wide – 35.3cm High x 55.8cm Wide Frame:                        22"High x 29"Wide - 55.8cm High x 73.7cm Wide    OFFERED FRAMED    CONDITION REPORT: Paper is slightly buckled along the left and right edges. Light toning. (this is an old drawing) In Overall Good Condition. The wood frame is old and should probably be replaced (glass).     PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU LOOK AT PICTURES AND ASK QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING. PLESE DO NOT BID IF YOU ARE NOT SURE. PLEASE READ THIS: I am an extremely honest person and have excellent reputation and feedback on ebay (feel free to check it). I will make everything possible to make any ebay transaction a smooth and positive experience. I will also try to describe the item as accurate as possible. Feel free to ask me any questions and for additional photos.   I’ll be offering other important images, paintings, photographs and antiques on ebay.   I only offer unique high quality items bought from very diverse sources, collections and estates.   Bid with confidence.   Good Luck     EMIL GANSO (GERMAN/AMERICAN, 1895-1941 Emil Ganso was born in Halberstadt, Germany in 1895. Ganso possessed a desire to draw at an early age, but he was apprenticed to a local baker. His baking was inconsistent and he was eventually fired. This situation repeated itself with almost every baker in Halberstadt. After burning himself in a bakery accident, Ganso was hired on with the Lloyd’s Line as the ship’s dishwasher. On his sixth trip in 1912, he disembarked in Hoboken and took a job at a bakery.In 1914 Ganso enrolled at the National Academy’s School of Fine Arts and began developing a body of work. Ganso met Erhard Weyhe of the Weyhe Gallery and he was so impressed with Ganso’s work that he bought his entire portfolio and placed him on a weekly retainer so that he could work exclusively on his art. Ganso’s first exhibition at the Weyhe Gallery in 1925 was a success and he continued to exhibit annually at Weyhe through 1936.Ganso spent summers at the artist’s colony, Woodstock, eventually starting his own summer classes in the graphic arts. Ganso worked in all aspects of intaglio, woodcuts, stencil prints and monotype. He personally printed the majority of his prints as well as the works of other artists, such as Kuniyoshi, Arnold and Heckman. Ganso returned to Europe in 1929 and in 1935 he joined the Federal Arts Project in New York, staying until 1937 by which time he had completed 11 prints. Ganso was awarded the Pennell Memorial Medal by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1938 and he began teaching at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1940. Ganso died in Iowa in 1941. Birth place: Halberstadt, Germany Death place: Iowa City, IA Addresses: Woodstock, NYC, NY Profession: Painter, etcher, lithographer, drawing specialist, engraver, photographer, lecturer Studied: ASL Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1922-25, 1930-36; Corcoran Gal., 1930, 1935; AIC; Wichita, KS (prize); PAFA, 1931-33, 1938; WFNY, 1939; GGE, 1939; WMAA.; S. Indp. A. Member: Soc. Am. Etchers; Guggenheim Fnd. (fellow); Woodstock AA Work: WMA; Portland AA; Los Angeles Mus.; WMAA; MMA; NYPL; Hamilton Easter Field Fnd.; Denver AA; CMA; MFA, Houston; BMFA; Newark Public Library; Honolulu Acad. Arts; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Fine Prints of the Year, 1931; Print Club, Cleveland, 1932; Woodstock AA Comments: Came to NYC at the age of seventeen. Turned to art full time when the Weyhe Gallery began to represent him and give him a stipend. Produced a large body of works in a generalized realism which led to photography in the 1930s. Perhaps best known for his erotic works. Position: artist in residence, Univ. Iowa Place a Bid!