Ca 1935 Color Wood Block "Bar Room" by Hungarian Artist Gyula Zilzer

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This is a Surreal Color Wood Block titled "Bar Room" by Listed Hungarian Artist Gyula Zilzer (1893-1969) It depicts a 1930" bar with people drinking and playing cards. The presentation is somewhat dream-like, almost depressing as befits the era in which it was created. It is # 107/250 and is Hand Signed lower right. The dimensions are 24" x 20", 27" x 23" in its frame, which appears to be original. Both wood Block and Frame are in very good condition with NO apparent flaws. Zilzer was born in Hungary in 1893 and studied at The Royal Academy of Arts in Budapest and earlier at the Hans Hoffman School of Art in Munich. He also studied The Academie Colorossi in Paris. He came to the U.S. in 1932and in 1935 exhibited at the Mellon Gallery in Philadelphia and at The New School for Social Research. From 1938 to 1948 as a production designer and art director in Hollywood. Zilzer's works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Natyional Art Museum in Budapest and the Smithsonian.