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Auction History Result 8z012 JEANETTE MACDONALD 16x20 color display 1940s wonderful portrait by Ernest Schuessler! Date Sold 9/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Color Display (measures 16" x 20" [41 x 51 cm]) (Learn More) Jeanette MacDonald was an actress/singer from the 1920s to the 1940s. She was born in 1903, and she works in choruses on Broadway in the 1920s. In 1929, Ernst Lubitsch picked her to play opposite Maurice Chevalier in "The Love Parade" for Paramount, and she also made the classic "Love Me Tonight", opposite Maurice Chevalier and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. In 1931, she left Paramount and signed with MGM, and in 1935, she starred in "Naughty Marietta" with Nelson Eddy, who whom she appeared in several other opera-like musicals of the 1930s. She had a big hit with "San Francisco", opposite Clark Gable, in 1936. In 1938, she quit the movies to perform in shows and on stage. From 1937 to her passing, she was married to actor Gene Raymond. She returned in the late 1940s to make two more movies, but she suffered from a bad heart, and passed away in 1965 at the age of 61. Artist: Ernest Schuessler Important Added Info: Note that Ernest Schuessler was a Milwaukee painter who was hired by a theater in his area to do 16" x 20" color displays on canvas of famous stars, which they displayed in the entrance to the theater when they showed movies with those stars. He worked from at least the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and we don't know how many of his works survive. We have been consigned seven of his color displays, which we are auctioning in seven separate auctions. All seven were originally mounted to stretchers, but five of them were removed from the stretchers at a later time, no doubt due to space limitations when they were being transported. Any of those five could easily be re-mounted to a stretcher, if the new owner desired. Two of the color displays have the artist's signature and the others do not, but they are all the work of the same man. We were unable to find additional information about this fine artist! This is one of the five color displays that was removed from the stretcher (see our image).
UPDATED 09/09/2019: Note that since we listed this "oil painting" (and other similar ones), we were contacted by several people who point out that these "oil paintings" look different than regular oil paintings. The biggest difference is that there appears to be some sort of paper that was attached to the canvas that the artist then painted on. Some people have suggested that the "artist" may simply have taken color photos and glued them to canvas and then performed paint enhancements to those photos, and perhaps put varnish over the entire image to give it the appearance of an oil painting (and two people told us that this was done by a number of artists in the time period in which these were created). We can't say for certain about the above, but these are definitely not "oil paintings", but they ARE definitely vintage from the years that we say, but beyond that we don't know more, so please consider all of this when bidding. They will display well on the new owners wall in spite of not being oil paintings! Condition: very good. The color display was removed from the stretcher and the folded over edges have been flattened. It could either be matted and framed without a stretcher, or one could re-attach it to a stretcher. See our image to get a good sense of exactly the condition the color display is in. Learn More about condition grades 
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