Lot 128 , Charles Tudor, American (1903-1970), 'Figures around a bar'

Charles Tudor (American, (1903-1970))
'Figures around a bar',
1932,
signed and dated lower right,
pencil on paper,
32cm x 23.5cm

£500-1,000
Best known as the art director of Life Magazine for 21 years from its inception, American artist Charles Tudor was a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where his mother, Ethel Isola Sapp, was a professor. He also attended Cleveland Art School.
He began his art career as a staff artist for the Cleveland Press aged 20 in 1923. After three years at the Press he obtained a leave of absence to study in Paris. His employer thought it was for four weeks. Tudor intended on staying a year. He returned from Paris after five weeks and joined the New York Telegram in Cincinnati. Tudor was fired from the Telegram by the police reporter about whom Tudor said, “I don’t think he liked my work”. Broke, Tudor returned to Cleveland and in 1930 took a job as staff artist with ‘Parade’, a short-lived publication based in Cleveland.
Tudor was dedicated to his artistic ideals and his journalistic ethics. His ambition was to be a painter and as much as his pursuant career was to demand from him, he continued to do pictorial work in oils and watercolors.

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Sold for £550