A Small Masque of Old Pantalone by Alfred Cohen – £2300 at Gerrards.
The American artist Alfred Cohen (1920-2001) was inspired in particular by the colour and handling of the Post-Impressionists and the imagery of the Commedia dell’arte.
Although trained in his native Chicago, he was awarded a fellowship to study in continental Europe in 1949 and settled in London in 1960. His exhibitions at the Ben Uri gallery in 1858 and at the Obelisk Gallery in 1960 were the first of nine one-man exhibitions in London.