ALBERTO DUCE (1915-2003, Zaragoza, Spain)

ALBERTO DUCE (Zaragoza Spain, 1915 – 2003)
signed lower left (dated 1952

original ink on paper, 21 x 16”

COMUNION VESTIDO -- First Communion Dress (?)
(Girl in a French Victorian chair)

glazed and framed with archival materials to
outside dimensions 26 x 21-1/2”

Duce lived in Washington DC from 1950 to 1961, where he painted a ceiling mural in a dome of the Spanish Embassy, and specialized in portraits.

He exhibited at the New Mexico Art Alliance (Santa Fe), Washington Arts Club (1951) and IFA Galleries (1956) and others before returning to Spain in 1962

Provenance : ex col. Gloria Stamm Chamberlain, author of AMERICAN PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
............................................................................$ 595.