Antique Art and Weaponry Sale, May 30, 2020
Lot 68:
Very fine oil on board " Franklin Roosevelt" painting by listed artist Michael J. Deas. Image size is 25 3/4" x 18 1/4", framed is 34" x 26 1/2". Comes with Masterpiece Appraisal.Michael J. Deas is a master realist painter and one of the nation’s premier illustrators. Working from his studio in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter, he creates paintings and drawings with an elegant eye and a mastery of the oil medium unusual in a contemporary context.Raised in suburban New Orleans and later in Long Island, NY, Deas began illustrating novels and children’s books at age 19. He has subsequently gone on to paint six covers for TIME Magazine, twenty-one postage stamps for the US Postal Service, and the cover for the 20th-anniversery edition of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. Two of his stamp portraits, of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, are among the best-selling in US postal annals.
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