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My brother bought this from Bertha herself on the streets of New York City about 15 years ago. It is an original oil painting apprx 8" by 10". It is Bertha's common theme of the Statue of Liberty. It's framed in a little painted white wooden frame.
The little folk art or outsider art painting is a sought after and desirable original. In the style of Howard Finster, this is a lovely colorful piece sure to be a treasure to the serious collector.
This is all original, just as Bertha made it. Hard to find, Ms. Halozan's pieces have continued to appreciate in value.
From the internet on Bertha:Born in Austria, Bertha Halozan emigrated to the United States in 1956. She worked in hospitals, but also pursued a career as a singer. She eventually gave up her career as a singer because "I got a lot of publicity but very little money".
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She began painting in 1978 during her rehabilitation following a stroke. Bertha generally painted the same subject - "a pigtailed, blue-eyed Statue of Liberty, surrounded by the busy activities of daily life in New York" usually including the Goodyear blimp and a Mets baseball player, John Franco, and a helicopter, and often showing red tile roof houses from an Austrian village in the background. For several years, she sold her paintings on a Manhattan street corner near the building in which she lived.
The reverse sides of her paintings pay homage to Bertha's past, with pasted and taped photocopies of old newspaper clippings dealing with various recitals she has given, including one at Carnegie Hall. |
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