1962 Etcing "The Diners" Signed Frederick?

Any idea who the artist might be?
Thanks

 

'The crappy couple' (my title)
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This style looks very familiar.....

 

Vaguely Boteroish. And I think their dinner did not agree with them.

Either that, or they are Republicans in a room full of Democrats.

Or, vice-versa.

 

It looks like Botero to me as well except his people look happier.

 

She is thinking, "If he doesn't get that damn cigar out from under my nose, I'll stop his allowance!"

 

They're both giving someone the hairy eyeball.

I rather like it!

 

I think it could be titled "The Carping Couple" as in "to find fault or complain querulously." I'm betting their food was too hot and then too cold, the water tasted like it came from an algae-topped pond, the bread was not mushy enough, they both found tendons in their butt steaks, and, most importantly, each had a chair which was not sufficient in size nor sturdy enough to hold either of their corpulent posteriors.

 

Its the dreaded "1%" couple !

 

By the way, am I reading the name right, Frederick?
Also, anyone familiar with the Cohen store? Looks like they carried some nice art.

 

He's looking snarly because he's waiting for his wife to go home so he can hook up with his bouncy, young mistress. She looks like she swallowed a grasshopper because she knows about the mistress and is making him suffer by hanging around.

 

Any place that advertises itself as a "Popular Price Picture Store" doesn't sound like The Home Of Fine Art.

 

I don't think that the name matters here. Back then some fine art was still affordable. Sears sold Chagall.

 

Sears sold mass produced prints. That's not the same as a store selling fine art. Value is based on rarity. A limited edition print of 100-500 is going to be worth more than a "limited edition" of thousands. That's why the secondary market for collectors plates from the Franklin Mint, for example, are impossible to even give away. Too many were made to give them any great resale value. Our local thrift stores won't even take them.

 

It is clearly Frederick. I searched but could come up with nothing. For some reason this looks very familiar to me. I keep wanting to say from the New Yorker? .... just a stab in the dark.

 

Seems to be inspired by artists like Otto Dix and George Grosz

 

Sears did sell fine art during the times of Vincent Price.

 

I'm sorry, but Vincent Price was an actor. He painted as a hobby. That is not fine art. I don't know why I'm explaining this because I'm sure you don't agree.

 

Is this a joke or you really don't know what I am talking about?

 

http://www.searsarchives.com/history/art/

http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2011/10/28/the-horror-vincent-price-sells-art-for-sears/

http://www.theapesheet.com/archivefour/vprice.html