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Fine Art381 of 578318th Century Painting On Ivory19th Century Oil On Canvas
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    Posted 3 years ago

    carmenisacat
    (88 items)

    OK, so. This little piece turned up at a thrift store here in Cochise County. I usually pass over anything by DeGrazia. I grew up in the same town that he lived for a number of years after he married the daughter of the owner of the local theater chain. When I was a kid, my mother was, how to put it, obsessed by his work. As small town people are...we really enjoy being the center of attention once in a while. Anyway, I examined this with my loupe at the store and did not find any evidence that it is a print. The paper which appears to be mounted on board of some type is fibrous and the colors appear to be transparent. I'm 99.9% positive it is not a print. So I contacted his gallery and inquired about the little gem. I was told that it was a print and so I asked about the title because I'm already doubting the expert who deals with Ted's archive. He tells me it is Boy With a Rooster. I am like "huh"? There's no rooster. So I email him back and ask, "Did you look at the images I sent?" I had accidently omitted them from my first and sent in a second email. So 5 or 10 minutes later he says he made a mistake and it was definitely not the Rooster piece which has been reproduced thousands of times. So then after another 15 minutes or so I receive another email saying it is a print because it has dots (again, there are simply no patterned dots whatsoever) and the name of the piece is Begger Boy. Spelled like that. So I begin searching. I've looked and looked to find even one print of Begger or Beggar Boy and have come up with none. If mine is a print then it appears to be the only one out there in a SEA of DeGrazia reproductions. So that is why I am here....has anyone here ever seen this in person or as a reproduction? If you have, please let me know. I plan to go to the museum after the holiday to show the director of Ted's museum in person but I think at this point I trust the people here at CW more hahaha.

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    1. rancherswife rancherswife, 3 years ago
      That’s a shame and I feel for you. I’d just keep digging and inquiring with various places. At some point you’ll find your answer!
    2. rancherswife rancherswife, 3 years ago
      The more we research the more we learn. Great piece though!
    3. carmenisacat carmenisacat, 3 years ago
      Thank you for your encouragement. :)
    4. willfool willfool, 2 years ago
      So, recently purchased a lot of Degrazia prints online, which have not arrived yet. But my research of one of the prints "Beggar Boy" (the reason I bought the lot) lead me to your post, as it contains the only image of "Beggar Boy" on the whole internet, at least that I could find. My print, which is definitely a print, I found cited in a random online PDF. file of Catalog of Copyright Entries, which states: "Col . reproduction of
      water color . 7 x 5 in . ( 1 1 0)
      Dated : '50. © Artistic Picture
      Publishing Cc . , inc . , New York ;
      4 May 51 ; H1976.
      So, again, don't have the print in-hand yet, but mine looks to be a very early 1950s print, as the original piece is dated 1950 and the copyright from the citation is 1951. Now, and I am reaching a bit here, my research of other A.P.P. prints for sale online found some prints by said company from the 1940s for sale that were listed as "hand-colored reproduction" which is a whole other process that I will have to look into.

      Nevertheless, "Beggar Boy" looks to be a rare, hard-to-find image (my lot also included "Boy & Egg" which looks to be another bit of research).

      Hope yours turns out to be the original watercolor...

      W

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