American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980 Recently Added the server is made from

the server is made from the finest figured Cuban mahogany

The top of each sconce is inset with a Sevres porcelain portrait miniature of  Princess Elizabeth the Sister of Louis XVI & Madame De Montesson the wife of Louis Philippe Duke of Orleans

The painting signed lower left and titled in the artist's hand to the verso

363 at Hauswedell & Nolte auction in Hamburg Germany

Noteworthy are the chryselephantines that can stand comparison with Art Nouveau statues by great sculptors

American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980 Recently Added the server is made fromAmerican cubist portrait painting of the American academic Michael Lerner, by the Modernist artist Michael Hurson (1941 2007). This whimsical portrait is painted in the cubist style and is of the American academic & medieval historian professor Robert Lerner, the composition is in pencil and charcoal with pastel & gouache on handmade paper. Michael Hurson was a modernist, innovative painter and sculptor whose styles ranged from Cubism to Pop Art, this