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JOSEPH C. LEYENDECKER.
Young Turkish boy, seated. Pen and ink on paper. 363x279 mm; 14
1
/
4
x11 inches, on tan
paper. Unsigned but with “return to Joseph C. Leyendecker” stamp with his New York
City address on verso. Upper right corner (marginal area) missing, few small chips along
edges, a one-inch clean tear in top margin and another repaired clean tear in margin to
right of image. A strong, compelling portrait.
[800/1,200]
This and the previous lot were evidently drawn during class while Leyendecker was studying under
John H.Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute in the early 1890s. He had not yet developed his
rugged monumental Art Nouveau style that graced many a Saturday Evening Post cover and defined
the Arrow Collar Man.After he and his brother, fellow artist Frank X. Leyendecker, moved to New
York in 1900, he opened a studio in Bryant Park Studios at 80West 40th Street.
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