George (1885) Biddle Paintings & Artwork for Sale | George (1885) Biddle Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 23, 2024
George Biddle (1885 - 1973) Antique American Modernist Horse Landscape Original Oil Painting
Est: $1,000 - $3,000
Antique American oil painting by George Biddle (1885 - 1973). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from D. Wigmore Fine Art. Please see all images for condition. Size is measured and written on the back of the painting. The first size is the overall size, the second size is the image size. For detailed condition questions please text 617-835-2496.
Curated Gallery Auctions
Feb. 10, 2024
George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California (1885 - 1973), Soldiers and Dog, 1930, lithograph, 15 3/4"H x 11 1/2"W (sheet)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle Pennsylvania, California, (1885 - 1973) Soldiers and Dog, 1930 lithograph Pencil signed, dated, and numbered 15/100 lower right. Signed in the plate. Biography from TheJohnsonCollection.org: In his 1939 autobiography entitled An American Artist's Story, George Biddle wrote that art "is a re-creation, a reaction to, a critique of life, expressed subconsciously in a given medium with a certain rhythm." Over the course of a fifty-year career that spanned continents, media, and aesthetic schools, Biddle created works that gave expressive form to his own experiences and to the changing face of twentieth-century life. Born to a prominent Philadelphia family, Biddle was educated in places of privilege, including Groton, Harvard, and Harvard Law School. His family's social expectations contradicted his own creative instincts, a tension at the root of two youthful emotional breakdowns. By 1911, the artist had discovered his own voice and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year, he furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Throughout his life, Biddle was an inveterate traveler who absorbed lessons while working in Europe, Tahiti, South America, Africa, and Asia. Living abroad in the early decades of the twentieth century, Biddle developed relationships with a wide swath of artists whose work shaped his own development, including Fred Frieseke, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Jules Pascin. Following service as an infantry officer on the French front from 1917–1919, Biddle emerged from the Great War "with a clearly defined orientation and a desperate need to make up for lost time." For two years, he lived in a Polynesian village before establishing a studio in New York, a decision that did little to dampen his enthusiasm for world travel. In 1928, Biddle accompanied the muralist Diego Rivera on a sketching trip in Mexico, an experience that would inform his own highly successful career as a social realist focused on contemporary America. Rivera's influence and Regionalist painting trends in the United States—such as strongly demarcated facial features and exaggerated physical forms—can be seen in Biddle's mature oeuvre, including In the Breakers and Street Shoppers, Charleston, South Carolina. At the invitation of DuBose Heyward, author of Porgy, and the composer George Gershwin, Biddle visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 1930. For two months, he sketched genre scenes and figure studies, many of which were later developed into finished studio canvases. A selection of his illustrations were ultimately published in Gershwin's original 1935 libretto to Porgy and Bess. During the Depression, Biddle drew on his childhood connection with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to champion the development of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Active as a painter, teacher, and writer throughout his later years, Biddle's drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures have been featured in over one hundred solo exhibitions, and were also represented in important group shows. His work is represented in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of Fine Art, among others.
Ripley Auctions
Feb. 10, 2024
George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California (1885 - 1973), "Katia! She is Dead! The Pretty Slut Shot Through the Head.", lithograph, 11 1/8"H x 8 1/2"W (sight), 17 1/8"H x 14 1/2"W (mat)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle Pennsylvania, California, (1885 - 1973) "Katia! She is Dead! The Pretty Slut Shot Through the Head." lithograph Pencil signed and numbered 1/100 lower right, titled lower left. Signed in the plate. Biography from TheJohnsonCollection.org: In his 1939 autobiography entitled An American Artist's Story, George Biddle wrote that art "is a re-creation, a reaction to, a critique of life, expressed subconsciously in a given medium with a certain rhythm." Over the course of a fifty-year career that spanned continents, media, and aesthetic schools, Biddle created works that gave expressive form to his own experiences and to the changing face of twentieth-century life. Born to a prominent Philadelphia family, Biddle was educated in places of privilege, including Groton, Harvard, and Harvard Law School. His family's social expectations contradicted his own creative instincts, a tension at the root of two youthful emotional breakdowns. By 1911, the artist had discovered his own voice and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year, he furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Throughout his life, Biddle was an inveterate traveler who absorbed lessons while working in Europe, Tahiti, South America, Africa, and Asia. Living abroad in the early decades of the twentieth century, Biddle developed relationships with a wide swath of artists whose work shaped his own development, including Fred Frieseke, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Jules Pascin. Following service as an infantry officer on the French front from 1917–1919, Biddle emerged from the Great War "with a clearly defined orientation and a desperate need to make up for lost time." For two years, he lived in a Polynesian village before establishing a studio in New York, a decision that did little to dampen his enthusiasm for world travel. In 1928, Biddle accompanied the muralist Diego Rivera on a sketching trip in Mexico, an experience that would inform his own highly successful career as a social realist focused on contemporary America. Rivera's influence and Regionalist painting trends in the United States—such as strongly demarcated facial features and exaggerated physical forms—can be seen in Biddle's mature oeuvre, including In the Breakers and Street Shoppers, Charleston, South Carolina. At the invitation of DuBose Heyward, author of Porgy, and the composer George Gershwin, Biddle visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 1930. For two months, he sketched genre scenes and figure studies, many of which were later developed into finished studio canvases. A selection of his illustrations were ultimately published in Gershwin's original 1935 libretto to Porgy and Bess. During the Depression, Biddle drew on his childhood connection with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to champion the development of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Active as a painter, teacher, and writer throughout his later years, Biddle's drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures have been featured in over one hundred solo exhibitions, and were also represented in important group shows. His work is represented in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of Fine Art, among others.
Ripley Auctions
Jan. 30, 2024
GEORGE BIDDLE - THE THREE GRACES
Est: $100 - $200
Lot 232 George Biddle American (1885-1973) The Three Graces (1926) lithograph signed lower right plate: 12 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches frame dimensions: 20 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches wood, frame with glazing Provenance: from a Chelsea, Manhattan Collection Eva Lee Gallery, Great Neck, New York, label affixed to verso
Capsule Gallery Auction
Jan. 24, 2024
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973)
Est: $200 - $400
Watercolor on paper. Signed 'George Biddle' and dated '1930' (lower right).
Cottone Auctions
Dec. 05, 2023
George Biddle (American, 1885–1973) - Study for Tenement Fresco
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
George Biddle (American, 1885–1973) - Study for Tenement Fresco Dedicated verso with sketch of vase verso, watercolor on paper. 15 x 10 ½ in. (38.1x26.7cm) Unframed. Provenance Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
Freeman's | Hindman
Dec. 03, 2023
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) - Pennsylvania Landscape
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) - Pennsylvania Landscape Signed and dated ‘Biddle/1947’ bottom right; also signed, titled, and numbered ‘581’ verso; also dated and pencil titled ‘Autumn Landscape, Pennsylvania,’ and with ‘Artists Reproduction Rights’ stamp on upper stretcher verso, oil on canvas 25 ¼ x 40 ¼ in. (64.1 x 102.2cm) Provenance The Artist's Estate. D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc., New York, New York. Acquired from the above in 2000. Christie's, New York, sale of April 5, 2011, lot 149. Acquired directly from the above sale. Private Collection, New York, New York.
Freeman's | Hindman
Dec. 03, 2023
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) - Tahitian Scene
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) - Tahitian Scene Signed with artist's initialed cypher and dated ‘GB 1920’ bottom left; also inscribed in Tahitian ‘E MEA MAITAI TE ORA I TAOTIRA (Life is Good to the Son of the Son)’ bottom right, oil on canvas 25 x 35 in. (63.5 x 88.9cm) Provenance Private Collection, Washington, D.C. Lot Essay Born into a well-to-do Philadelphia family, George Biddle was initially a Harvard educated attorney, but remains best known for both his association with the Federal Art Project and as a social realist who presided over the National Society of Mural Painters (his often-cited Society Freed Through Justice hangs in the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.). A brief but noteworthy aspect of Biddle’s life includes the time he spent in Tahiti. He traveled there as a young man after serving in World War I. Executed in 1920, the present painting is a great example of Biddle‘s Tahitian-themed oeuvre, which features works that successfully document the local people and environs. Biddle created a journal about his time in Tahiti, and while there, he learned the local dialect and gained an understanding and appreciation of the native culture. Remarking about the people of Tahiti, Biddle once said: “They are far happier than most of us, for they only live in the present.”
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 15, 2023
George Biddle "Mimi Kaplan with Cats" Painting
Est: $3,500 - $6,000
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973). Oil on canvas painting titled "Mimi Kaplan with Cats" depicting a portrait of a young girl with a stuffed animal and two pet cats, 1939. Signed and dated along the lower left. With a label from D. Wigmore Fine Art affixed to the verso. Provenance: D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York; Private Minnesota Collection.
Revere Auctions
Oct. 28, 2023
George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California (1885 - 1973), portrait of two men in profile, 1937, lithograph, 14 1/8"H x 20"W (sheet)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle Pennsylvania, California, (1885 - 1973) portrait of two men in profile, 1937 lithograph Signed and dated lower right. Biography from TheJohnsonCollection.org: In his 1939 autobiography entitled An American Artist's Story, George Biddle wrote that art "is a re-creation, a reaction to, a critique of life, expressed subconsciously in a given medium with a certain rhythm." Over the course of a fifty-year career that spanned continents, media, and aesthetic schools, Biddle created works that gave expressive form to his own experiences and to the changing face of twentieth-century life. Born to a prominent Philadelphia family, Biddle was educated in places of privilege, including Groton, Harvard, and Harvard Law School. His family's social expectations contradicted his own creative instincts, a tension at the root of two youthful emotional breakdowns. By 1911, the artist had discovered his own voice and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year, he furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Throughout his life, Biddle was an inveterate traveler who absorbed lessons while working in Europe, Tahiti, South America, Africa, and Asia. Living abroad in the early decades of the twentieth century, Biddle developed relationships with a wide swath of artists whose work shaped his own development, including Fred Frieseke, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Jules Pascin. Following service as an infantry officer on the French front from 1917–1919, Biddle emerged from the Great War "with a clearly defined orientation and a desperate need to make up for lost time." For two years, he lived in a Polynesian village before establishing a studio in New York, a decision that did little to dampen his enthusiasm for world travel. In 1928, Biddle accompanied the muralist Diego Rivera on a sketching trip in Mexico, an experience that would inform his own highly successful career as a social realist focused on contemporary America. Rivera's influence and Regionalist painting trends in the United States—such as strongly demarcated facial features and exaggerated physical forms—can be seen in Biddle's mature oeuvre, including In the Breakers and Street Shoppers, Charleston, South Carolina. At the invitation of DuBose Heyward, author of Porgy, and the composer George Gershwin, Biddle visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 1930. For two months, he sketched genre scenes and figure studies, many of which were later developed into finished studio canvases. A selection of his illustrations were ultimately published in Gershwin's original 1935 libretto to Porgy and Bess. During the Depression, Biddle drew on his childhood connection with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to champion the development of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Active as a painter, teacher, and writer throughout his later years, Biddle's drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures have been featured in over one hundred solo exhibitions, and were also represented in important group shows. His work is represented in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of Fine Art, among others.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 28, 2023
George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California (1885 - 1973), Soldiers and Dog, 1930, lithograph, 15 3/4"H x 11 1/2"W (sheet)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle Pennsylvania, California, (1885 - 1973) Soldiers and Dog, 1930 lithograph Pencil signed, dated, and numbered 15/100 lower right. Signed in the plate. Biography from TheJohnsonCollection.org: In his 1939 autobiography entitled An American Artist's Story, George Biddle wrote that art "is a re-creation, a reaction to, a critique of life, expressed subconsciously in a given medium with a certain rhythm." Over the course of a fifty-year career that spanned continents, media, and aesthetic schools, Biddle created works that gave expressive form to his own experiences and to the changing face of twentieth-century life. Born to a prominent Philadelphia family, Biddle was educated in places of privilege, including Groton, Harvard, and Harvard Law School. His family's social expectations contradicted his own creative instincts, a tension at the root of two youthful emotional breakdowns. By 1911, the artist had discovered his own voice and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year, he furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Throughout his life, Biddle was an inveterate traveler who absorbed lessons while working in Europe, Tahiti, South America, Africa, and Asia. Living abroad in the early decades of the twentieth century, Biddle developed relationships with a wide swath of artists whose work shaped his own development, including Fred Frieseke, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Jules Pascin. Following service as an infantry officer on the French front from 1917–1919, Biddle emerged from the Great War "with a clearly defined orientation and a desperate need to make up for lost time." For two years, he lived in a Polynesian village before establishing a studio in New York, a decision that did little to dampen his enthusiasm for world travel. In 1928, Biddle accompanied the muralist Diego Rivera on a sketching trip in Mexico, an experience that would inform his own highly successful career as a social realist focused on contemporary America. Rivera's influence and Regionalist painting trends in the United States—such as strongly demarcated facial features and exaggerated physical forms—can be seen in Biddle's mature oeuvre, including In the Breakers and Street Shoppers, Charleston, South Carolina. At the invitation of DuBose Heyward, author of Porgy, and the composer George Gershwin, Biddle visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 1930. For two months, he sketched genre scenes and figure studies, many of which were later developed into finished studio canvases. A selection of his illustrations were ultimately published in Gershwin's original 1935 libretto to Porgy and Bess. During the Depression, Biddle drew on his childhood connection with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to champion the development of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Active as a painter, teacher, and writer throughout his later years, Biddle's drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures have been featured in over one hundred solo exhibitions, and were also represented in important group shows. His work is represented in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of Fine Art, among others.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 28, 2023
George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California (1885 - 1973), "Katia! She is Dead! The Pretty Slut Shot Through the Head.", lithograph, 11 1/8"H x 8 1/2"W (sight), 17 1/8"H x 14 1/2"W (mat)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle Pennsylvania, California, (1885 - 1973) "Katia! She is Dead! The Pretty Slut Shot Through the Head." lithograph Pencil signed and numbered 1/100 lower right, titled lower left. Signed in the plate. Biography from TheJohnsonCollection.org: In his 1939 autobiography entitled An American Artist's Story, George Biddle wrote that art "is a re-creation, a reaction to, a critique of life, expressed subconsciously in a given medium with a certain rhythm." Over the course of a fifty-year career that spanned continents, media, and aesthetic schools, Biddle created works that gave expressive form to his own experiences and to the changing face of twentieth-century life. Born to a prominent Philadelphia family, Biddle was educated in places of privilege, including Groton, Harvard, and Harvard Law School. His family's social expectations contradicted his own creative instincts, a tension at the root of two youthful emotional breakdowns. By 1911, the artist had discovered his own voice and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year, he furthered his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Throughout his life, Biddle was an inveterate traveler who absorbed lessons while working in Europe, Tahiti, South America, Africa, and Asia. Living abroad in the early decades of the twentieth century, Biddle developed relationships with a wide swath of artists whose work shaped his own development, including Fred Frieseke, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Jules Pascin. Following service as an infantry officer on the French front from 1917–1919, Biddle emerged from the Great War "with a clearly defined orientation and a desperate need to make up for lost time." For two years, he lived in a Polynesian village before establishing a studio in New York, a decision that did little to dampen his enthusiasm for world travel. In 1928, Biddle accompanied the muralist Diego Rivera on a sketching trip in Mexico, an experience that would inform his own highly successful career as a social realist focused on contemporary America. Rivera's influence and Regionalist painting trends in the United States—such as strongly demarcated facial features and exaggerated physical forms—can be seen in Biddle's mature oeuvre, including In the Breakers and Street Shoppers, Charleston, South Carolina. At the invitation of DuBose Heyward, author of Porgy, and the composer George Gershwin, Biddle visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 1930. For two months, he sketched genre scenes and figure studies, many of which were later developed into finished studio canvases. A selection of his illustrations were ultimately published in Gershwin's original 1935 libretto to Porgy and Bess. During the Depression, Biddle drew on his childhood connection with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to champion the development of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Active as a painter, teacher, and writer throughout his later years, Biddle's drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures have been featured in over one hundred solo exhibitions, and were also represented in important group shows. His work is represented in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of Fine Art, among others.
Ripley Auctions
Aug. 09, 2023
George Biddle (1885-1973) Pennsylvania California & Maurice Earle (1905-) New York (two)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle MOTHER AND CHILD, 1955, lithograph, signed and numbered 73/125 in pencil, printed by Lynton Kistler with blind stamp lower left, image 8 x 5”, sheet 11 x 8”, mat 14 x 11”; Together with Maurice Earle THE TEN O’CLOCK COMMENTATOR, lithograph, signed and titled in pencil, sheet 10 ½ x 16 ¼”, mat 16 x 20”. (2)
Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.
May. 10, 2023
George BIDDLE: "Catfish Row" (1936) - Lithograph
Est: $500 - $800
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) lithograph titled "Catfish Row" (or Catfish Alley), 1936. Signed faintly in the plate lower right. American Artists Group publishers imprint to verso, with further stamp to verso of mat. Provenance: Phyllis Lucas Gallery, NYC. [Sheet: 13 1/4" H x 17 3/4" W; Mat: 15 1/2" H x 18" W].
Roland Auctions NY
Apr. 29, 2023
George Biddle, American (1885-1973), Gathering Flowers on the Banks of the Hudson, 1926, lithograph, 9 1/2"H x 12"W (sight), 16"H x 20"W (mat)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle American, (1885-1973) Gathering Flowers on the Banks of the Hudson, 1926 lithograph Numbered 2/50 and titled lower left, signed and dated lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: George Biddle's autobiography of 1939, An American Artist's Story, is the main source for any study of the artist. Most of Biddle's tale involves Depression-era, American Scene mural painting, for which Biddle was personally responsible, by suggesting a government-sponsored program to his old friend and classmate Franklin D. Roosevelt. Born on January 24, 1885 in Philadelphia, Biddle received his B.A. from Harvard where he then completed his doctorate in law. He received art instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, at the Académie Julian in Paris and then in Munich. During the first world war, Biddle lived in Giverny (1915-16) where he painted outdoor nudes such as Back of a Nude with Parasol (Eleanor and Irv Welling) and Summer 1919 in an impressionist manner. During this last wave of American expatriate painters at Giverny, Biddle was clearly influenced by Frederick Frieseke, as he explained (Biddle, 1939, p. 149): "Long summers I spent in Giverny near my friend Fred Frieseke, painting in the good plein air, impressionist tradition. Frieseke had a clear palette. I fell into it as a duck takes to water, after the mud of Munich, Julien's [sic] and the Pennsylvania Academy." Biddle added that one could see Monet "over his garden wall;" he knew Louis Ritman, and mentioned three other influential figures: Adolphe Borie (on whom he wrote a monograph in 1937), Degas, and Mary Cassatt. He even met Rodin. Captain George Biddle served in the G2 Section of the First Army Corps during the war, was discharged in April 1919, and traveled clear to Tahiti to erase the memories of war and to find peace (1920-22). There he explored various media: wood and stone sculpture, wood block prints and even marquetry. The Pennsylvania Academy has his painting Tahitians from that trip, which reflects Gauguin's influence in the outlining of forms — here almost a cloisonnisme, while the human figures have a statuesque massiveness. There is no trace of the accidental lighting in the Frieseke-inspired taches of sunlight of the earlier period. Biddle returned to America, this time to New York City and continued with sculpture, but soon he was back in Paris. That was during an exciting decade of American expatriatism — when even some bohemians were well off financially and there was plenty of intellectual and aesthetic stimulation, as Brancusi, Zadkine, Marie Laurencin, Léger, and Chagall met in the café crowd. Biddle visited Gertrude Stein's salon, met James Joyce, Marsden Hartley, and other stars of modernism. He dropped in on Cassatt in January 1926, five months before her death. She still had praise for Degas, and wondered what the world was coming to when such art as Laurencin's was widely accepted. In April, John Singer Sargent dies in his sleep — another great American expatriate who witnessed the flowering of impressionism. American art had passed beyond impressionism and Biddle would soon be a leader in the promotion of a dynamic national school of mural art. Biddle's A Woman with a Letter (1933), which recalls both Raphael Soyer and Charles Demuth, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His own murals include Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department (1936; now in the University of Maryland), American Revolutionary scenes in the New Brunswick, New Jersey Post Office (1939), two large panels in the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (1942) and two murals for the Supreme Court Building in Mexico City (1944). The Whitney Museum of American Art has Biddle's Winter in Tortilla Flat (1941). He died at Croton-on-Hudson, New York in 1973. Sources: Biddle, George. An American Artist's Story. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1939; Boswell, Peyton Jr. Modern American Painting. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940, pp. 95-96; Saint-Gaudens, Homer. The American Artist and His Times. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1941, pp. 250, 275-276; Gruskin, Alan D. Painting in the U.S.A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1946, p. 158; Pagano, Grace. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting. Chicago: 1946, cat. no. 7; Baigell, Matthew. The American Scene: American Painting in the 1930's. New York: Praeger, 1974, pp. 46, 51, 70; Contreras, Belisario R. Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983; Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 218, 234; Zellman, 1987, p. 805; Preato, Robert R. and Sandra L. Langer. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Transformations in the Modern American Mode 1885-1945. New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, 1988, pp. 44-45, 80; Gerdts, 1993, pp. 206-208, 214. Submitted by Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D.
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 29, 2023
George Biddle, American (1885-1973), Bull and Calf, 1937, lithograph, 13"H x 20"W
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle American, (1885-1973) Bull and Calf, 1937 lithograph Signed and dated lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: George Biddle's autobiography of 1939, An American Artist's Story, is the main source for any study of the artist. Most of Biddle's tale involves Depression-era, American Scene mural painting, for which Biddle was personally responsible, by suggesting a government-sponsored program to his old friend and classmate Franklin D. Roosevelt. Born on January 24, 1885 in Philadelphia, Biddle received his B.A. from Harvard where he then completed his doctorate in law. He received art instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, at the Académie Julian in Paris and then in Munich. During the first world war, Biddle lived in Giverny (1915-16) where he painted outdoor nudes such as Back of a Nude with Parasol (Eleanor and Irv Welling) and Summer 1919 in an impressionist manner. During this last wave of American expatriate painters at Giverny, Biddle was clearly influenced by Frederick Frieseke, as he explained (Biddle, 1939, p. 149): "Long summers I spent in Giverny near my friend Fred Frieseke, painting in the good plein air, impressionist tradition. Frieseke had a clear palette. I fell into it as a duck takes to water, after the mud of Munich, Julien's [sic] and the Pennsylvania Academy." Biddle added that one could see Monet "over his garden wall;" he knew Louis Ritman, and mentioned three other influential figures: Adolphe Borie (on whom he wrote a monograph in 1937), Degas, and Mary Cassatt. He even met Rodin. Captain George Biddle served in the G2 Section of the First Army Corps during the war, was discharged in April 1919, and traveled clear to Tahiti to erase the memories of war and to find peace (1920-22). There he explored various media: wood and stone sculpture, wood block prints and even marquetry. The Pennsylvania Academy has his painting Tahitians from that trip, which reflects Gauguin's influence in the outlining of forms — here almost a cloisonnisme, while the human figures have a statuesque massiveness. There is no trace of the accidental lighting in the Frieseke-inspired taches of sunlight of the earlier period. Biddle returned to America, this time to New York City and continued with sculpture, but soon he was back in Paris. That was during an exciting decade of American expatriatism — when even some bohemians were well off financially and there was plenty of intellectual and aesthetic stimulation, as Brancusi, Zadkine, Marie Laurencin, Léger, and Chagall met in the café crowd. Biddle visited Gertrude Stein's salon, met James Joyce, Marsden Hartley, and other stars of modernism. He dropped in on Cassatt in January 1926, five months before her death. She still had praise for Degas, and wondered what the world was coming to when such art as Laurencin's was widely accepted. In April, John Singer Sargent dies in his sleep — another great American expatriate who witnessed the flowering of impressionism. American art had passed beyond impressionism and Biddle would soon be a leader in the promotion of a dynamic national school of mural art. Biddle's A Woman with a Letter (1933), which recalls both Raphael Soyer and Charles Demuth, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His own murals include Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department (1936; now in the University of Maryland), American Revolutionary scenes in the New Brunswick, New Jersey Post Office (1939), two large panels in the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (1942) and two murals for the Supreme Court Building in Mexico City (1944). The Whitney Museum of American Art has Biddle's Winter in Tortilla Flat (1941). He died at Croton-on-Hudson, New York in 1973. Sources: Biddle, George. An American Artist's Story. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1939; Boswell, Peyton Jr. Modern American Painting. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1940, pp. 95-96; Saint-Gaudens, Homer. The American Artist and His Times. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1941, pp. 250, 275-276; Gruskin, Alan D. Painting in the U.S.A. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1946, p. 158; Pagano, Grace. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting. Chicago: 1946, cat. no. 7; Baigell, Matthew. The American Scene: American Painting in the 1930's. New York: Praeger, 1974, pp. 46, 51, 70; Contreras, Belisario R. Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983; Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 218, 234; Zellman, 1987, p. 805; Preato, Robert R. and Sandra L. Langer. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Transformations in the Modern American Mode 1885-1945. New York: Grand Central Art Galleries, 1988, pp. 44-45, 80; Gerdts, 1993, pp. 206-208, 214. Submitted by Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D.
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 05, 2023
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Tahitian Beauty, 1921
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Tahitian Beauty, 1921 Signed and dated Biddle 1921 (lr) Oil on canvas 20 x 24 1/4 inches (50.8 x 61.6 cm) Provenance: Arts Council of the City of New York, New York C Property from the Collection of Helen Sonnenberg Tucker
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Feb. 08, 2023
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Haitian Landscape, 1955
Est: $800 - $1,200
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Haitian Landscape, 1955 Signed and dated Biddle 1955 (ll); signed Biddle, inscribed Landscape: Haiti, 783 and as titled on the reverse Oil on canvas 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm) C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Feb. 04, 2023
George Biddle lithograph
Est: $300 - $500
George Biddle (1885-1973) ''Catfish Row'' (Pennigar 112)- lithograph, 1936, for the AAG with stamp on verso, edition of about 200. 9 1/2 x 12''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Nov. 17, 2022
George Biddle, oil on canvas, 1937
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973), "Red Apples, Pears", signed and dated lower right, signed and titled verso, various gallery and exhibition labels verso, 10"h x 16"w (stretcher), 16"h x 22"w (frame)
Millea Bros Ltd
Nov. 17, 2022
George Biddle, oil on canvas, 1937
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973), Still Life with Bananas and Pears, signed and dated lower right, signed and numbered "378" verso, gallery label verso, 10"h x 12"w (stretcher), 16"h x 18"w (frame)
Millea Bros Ltd
Nov. 15, 2022
George Biddle, (1885-1973), "Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz," 1943, Oil on canvas laid to waxed canvas, 40" H x 30" W
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
George Biddle (1885-1973) "Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz," 1943 Oil on canvas laid to waxed canvas Signed and dated lower left: Biddle; titled on a gallery label affixed to backing board 40" H x 30" W Provenance: D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc., New York, NY
John Moran Auctioneers
Sep. 22, 2022
GEORGE BIDDLE (Pennsylvania/California, 1885-1973), Two mixed media works:, On paper, 10” x 12.5”. Unframed.
Est: $700 - $1,000
GEORGE BIDDLE Pennsylvania/California, 1885-1973 Two mixed media works: 1) "Second Class". Signed and titled lower right. 2) "San Juan Ostuncalco". Signed, titled and dated "July 21, 1940" lower right.
Eldred's
May. 31, 2022
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973)
Est: $200 - $400
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) "Dolce et deorum est," lithograph, 1934, signed. Unframed. Size: 17.5'' x 13'', 44 x 33 cm (image); 23'' x 16'', 58 x 41 cm (sheet).
Material Culture
Feb. 27, 2022
"Don Juan Santo Domingo" painting by Gary Biddle; 1927 [146581]
Est: $200 - $400
Watercolor painting by George Biddle titled "Don Juan Santo Domingo". This is an original piece signed by the artist and dated 1927. George Biddle (1885-1973) was an American painter and muralist whose art style was influenced by Diego Rivera. He was also played an instrumental role in federal arts programs during the Great Depression. This painting depicts an agricultural scene with mules and palm trees. Artwork is 11.5 x 8.5, frame is 16.5 x 13.75, good condition, minor scratches on the wooden frame. Biographical information obtained from https://americanart.si.edu/artist/george-biddle-402. Date: Country (if not USA): State: City: Provenance:
Holabird Western Americana
Jan. 27, 2022
GEORGE BIDDLE (1885-1973) Three Beggars.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
GEORGE BIDDLE (1885-1973) Three Beggars. Oil on canvas. 762x508 mm; 30x20 inches. Signed, Biddle, and dated, 1929, lower right. Signed, Biddle, inscribed, 203, and as titled on verso. The Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA) awarded two mural projects to George Biddle: in 1936 he completed Society Freed through Justice, as part of a large arts project at the Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.; and in 1939 he created three panels for the New Brunswick Post Office, New Brunswick, NJ.
Swann Auction Galleries
Aug. 26, 2021
† George Biddle (1885-1973) American, portrait of a woman wearing a head-dress, oil on board, signed and dated 1954 lower left
Est: £300 - £500
† George Biddle (1885-1973) American, portrait of a woman wearing a head-dress, oil on board, signed and dated 1954 lower left
Dawsons Auctioneers
Aug. 04, 2021
George Biddle (American/Pennsylvania, 1885-1973)
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle (American/Pennsylvania, 1885-1973) , "Catfish Row", 1936, lithograph, unsigned, edition of 200, published by American Artist's Group, sight 9 1/2 in. x 12 in., framed Condition: Overall good condition
Neal Auction Company
Jul. 29, 2021
† George Biddle (1885-1973) American, portrait of a woman wearing a head-dress, oil on board, signed and dated 1954 lower left
Est: £500 - £700
† George Biddle (1885-1973) American, portrait of a woman wearing a head-dress, oil on board, signed and dated 1954 lower left
Dawsons Auctioneers
Jun. 26, 2021
GEORGE BIDDLE (1885-1973) 'FIRE IN THE NIGHT'
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
Framed oil on canvas painting, "Fire in the Night," signed lower right Biddle (George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California, 1885-1973), dated 1936, D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc. label verso, sight: approx 19.75"h, 23.75"w, overall: approx 27.5"h, 31.5"w, 13.5lbs **Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Philadelphia, PA; Michael Biddle, Croton-on-Hudson, NY; D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc., American Paintings, 22 E 76th St, Ny, NY 10021 Exhibited: American Scene Painting and Sculpture: Dominant Style of the 1930s and 1940s, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., NY, 1988, p. 45.** Start Price: $500.00
Austin Auction Gallery
Feb. 10, 2021
George Biddle "Three Beggars" Oil on Canvas
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973). Oil on canvas titled "Three Beggars," 1929. Signed and dated along the lower right. Further signed, titled, and inscribed "203" along the verso. Unframed; height: 30 1/4 in x width: 20 1/4 in. Framed; height: 37 1/4 in x width: 27 1/4 in.
Revere Auctions
Oct. 24, 2020
George Biddle lithograph
Est: $300 - $500
George Biddle (American 1885-1973)- ''Catfish Row'' (Pennigar 112)- lithograph, ca. 1936, edition of about 200, published by AAG, two hinges top corners verso, one piece of cellophane tape along right margin. 9 1/2 x 12''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Aug. 29, 2020
GEORGE BIDDLE (1885-1973) 'FIRE IN THE NIGHT'
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Framed oil on canvas painting, "Fire in the Night," signed lower right Biddle (George Biddle, Pennsylvania, California, 1885-1973), dated 1936, D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc. label verso, sight: approx 19.75"h, 23.75"w, overall: approx 27.5"h, 31.5"w, 13.5lbs **Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Philadelphia, PA; Michael Biddle, Croton-on-Hudson, NY; D. Wigmore Fine Art Inc., American Paintings, 22 E 76th St, Ny, NY 10021 Exhibited: American Scene Painting and Sculpture: Dominant Style of the 1930s and 1940s, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., NY, 1988, p. 45.** Start Price: $2500.00
Austin Auction Gallery
Oct. 13, 2019
George Biddle (1885-1973) "Clown"
Est: $800 - $1,200
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973) "Laughing Clown," 1948, oil and gouache painting on masonite, signed and dated. Framed. Size: 11.5'' x 8.5'', 29 x 22 cm (sight); 15'' x 11.5'', 38 x 29 cm (frame). George Biddle was a scion of the historic Philadelphia Biddle family. After being graduated from Groton and studying law at Harvard, Biddle rejected family expectations of a career in law and instead adopted a relatively bohemian lifestyle as an international traveler, experimental artist and writer.
Material Culture
May. 30, 2019
George Biddle Signed Lithograph
Est: $40 - $60
George Biddle (American 1885 - 1973) signed original lithograph. Included is information from the Associated American Artists, New York identifying work as 'Michael John a Limited Edition Signed Original Lithograph.' Signed 'George Biddle' in pencil
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Apr. 11, 2019
George Biddle Signed Lithograph
Est: $40 - $60
George Biddle (American 1885 - 1973) signed original lithograph. Included is information from the Associated American Artists, New York identifying work as 'Michael John a Limited Edition Signed Original Lithograph.' Signed 'George Biddle' in pencil lower right under image. Measures 11-in. x 7.25-in. image size, 15.75-in. x 12.5-in. sheet size. All are unframed, loose and not mounted or glued down. If lot is absent of a condition report a condition report may be requested via email. EX. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as grading can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc. collection. We ship most items in this auction in house and gladly combine shipping if possible of multiple items.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Feb. 17, 2019
GEORGE BIDDLE (1885 - 1973) LITHOGRAPH
Est: $10 - $100
Lithograph in black and yellow / tan. Titled "Three Cows" and numbered 20 /50. Signed and dated 1932 lower right. With pencil dedication to "Van Wyck" Dimensions: (PAPER) H 13.75" x W 19.75" Condition: Laid down on board. Some spots of surface staining and light surface dirt. Pencil framing instructions along right edge.
Westport Auction
Dec. 13, 2018
George Biddle Signed Lithograph
Est: $100 - $200
George Biddle signed lithograph. Measures 13.25" x 9" image size and 15" x 11" sheet size. Good to very good condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc. collection. We ship most items in this auction in house and gladly combine shipping if possible of multiple items.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Dec. 13, 2018
George Biddle Signed Lithograph
Est: $100 - $150
George Biddle (American, 1885 - 1973) signed lithograph. Signed and dated in pen "George Biddle 1937" lower right. Plate signed and dated "Biddle 1937" center left. Measures 10" x 13.5" sheet size. VG-EX/Ex condition. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc. collection. We ship most items in this auction in house and gladly combine shipping if possible of multiple items.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 20, 2018
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Alice Foote MacDougal's Coffee Shop, 1933
Est: $700 - $900
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Alice Foote MacDougal's Coffee Shop, 1933 Signed Biddle, dated 1933, and inscribed Karl Marx and a New DEAL/AT ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGAL'S (lr), inscribed as titled on the reverse Ink on paper 9 x 11 3/4 inches Unframed Provenance: Susan Teller Gallery, New York Exhibited: George Biddle: An American Conscience, Dec. 3-30, 1999, Susan Teller Gallery, New York, no. 10 Selected Readers, Poets House, New York C The Patricia and Donald Oresman Collection
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Nov. 20, 2018
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Nuremberg Trial, The Judges, 1946
Est: $800 - $1,200
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Nuremberg Trial, The Judges, 1946 Signed George Biddle, dated 1946, and inscribed Nuremberg (lr), inscribed Top row: Two interpreters for judges. / Second row: (left to right) General Nikichenko, Justice Norman Burkit, alternate; / Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence; Francis Biddle; Judge John Parker, alternate; Professor / Donnedien de VaBres; Magistrate Robert Falco. / Row below judges: Form typists, etc. / Bottom row: left, German advocate Fritz Sauter / right: Councellor of documents. Ink on paper 11 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches Unframed Provenance: Susan Teller Gallery, New York Exhibited: George Biddle: An American Conscience, Dec. 3-30, 1999, Susan Teller Gallery, New York, no. 23 C The Patricia and Donald Oresman Collection
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Nov. 20, 2018
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Nuremberg Trial, The Accused, 1946
Est: $800 - $1,200
George Biddle American, 1885-1973 Nuremberg Trial, The Accused, 1946 Signed George Biddle, dated 1946, and inscribed Nuremberg (lr), inscribed Top row. First edition guards. One stood back of each prisoner. Next row from left to right: Doenitz, Raeder, vonSchirach/Sankel, von Papen. Third row: Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, von Kaltenbrun, Streicher, Schact. / Bottom row: German advocates. As with the low cartoons, I have not always placed them in the order in which / they usually sit & for purposes of space and scale I have omitted many. on the reverse Ink on paper 11 x 14 inches Unframed Provenance: Susan Teller Gallery, New York Exhibited: George Biddle: An American Conscience, Dec. 3-30, 1999, no. 24, Susan Teller Gallery, New York C The Patricia and Donald Oresman Collection
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Oct. 29, 2018
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973), lithograph on paper "Carnival in Rio", 10-1/4" x 11" pl; Michael Biddle (American, b. 1934), et...
Est: $80 - $120
George Biddle (American, 1885-1973), lithograph on paper "Carnival in Rio", 10-1/4" x 11" pl; Michael Biddle (American, b. 1934), etching on paper "Cheetah", ed 26/250, 9-1/8" x 11-1/2" pl, both pencil signed, original AAA certificates, very good condition
William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals
Oct. 25, 2018
George Biddle Lithograph
Est: $100 - $150
George Biddle original signed lithograph. Signed and dated in pencil "George Biddle 1926" lower right. Titled in pencil "Adam and Eve" lower left. Measures 15" x 11" sheet size. Good to very good condition with toning in margins. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Amity Art Foundation, Inc. collection. We ship most items in this auction in house and gladly combine shipping if possible of multiple items.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Sep. 28, 2018
George Biddle: Boxer 1956
Est: $2,600 - $2,800
Modern scene of boxing ring
The Plymouth Exchange
Jul. 26, 2018
George Biddle. Self-Portrait. 1964.
Est: $200 - $400
Biddle, George (American, 1885-1973). "Self-Portrait." 1964. Etching. Edition 18 of 28. Signed and dated in pencil, l.r., editioned and titled, l.l. Framed: 21 1/2" x 17 1/2" Condition: Under glass, not examined out of frame.
Quinn's Auction Galleries
Jul. 22, 2018
BIDDLE, George. Linocut on Silver Leaf. Bathers.
Est: $300 - $500
Tahiti, 1921. Signed and dated in ink lower right, monogrammed and dated in the image upper left. George Biddle (American, 1885-1973). From a Queens, NY collection. Dimensions: image - 14" high x 10" wide; sight - 17.75" high x 12.75" wide.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Jun. 09, 2018
George Biddle lithograph
Est: $350 - $500
George Biddle (American 1885-1973)- ''Catfish Row'' (Pennigar 112)- lithograph, 1936, for the AAG with stamp on verso, edition of about 200. 9 1/2 x 12''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts