Sig Help

Hope someone can figure out the artist. I give up LOL. Appears to be oil and crayon on paper. I’d guess 80s but can’t read the date.

 

Date may be 1982

 

I think I answered my own question LOL. Do you all agree? Ali Fuat Icsel? Died 2011.

 

Tee hee. I was going to say that the artist's mother is missing this from the front of her fridge.

 

Very helpful. TY.

 

I can't find anyone named Ali Furat Icsel, dead or alive. Assuming you were serious, could you share where you found this person?

 

I’m always serious when it comes to art. Typo-Ali Fuat Icsel…Looks like the same work to me. Obscure for sure and decorative only but I collect naive/primitive and like it a lot. I’d buy any kid on a fridge with his talent but that’s just my personal taste.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66304970@N06/

 

Thanks.

 

Why not.

http://kedikultursanat.org/2012/03/01/ali-fuat-icsel/

Debora

 

Yup-found him above. Looks like he’s gone since 2011. The oddest part to me is that he lived in Turkey. I would have guessed that was a SW mountain road scene. I just returned from New Mexico so that’s probably still in my head.

 

Lived and worked in Izmir, no? Might have been a souvenir as popular tourist destination.

Debora

 

TY. I couldn’t find the sig elsewhere but knew it was him as soon as I found that other work. Wonder if it was bought abroad or that he was in the US at some point?

 

I like this one a lot. Really like the guy…stumbled on it at an estate sale. They knew nothing.

 

It was a dark and stormy night...

 

I was sure it was the road to Los Alamos LOL. Only off by 6500 miles!

 

Here is a biography all in Turkish.
If you can find an easier way than Google Lens (which is all I have) to translate that page you could read the whole thing.
https://kedikultursanat.org/2012/03/01/ali-fuat-icsel/


https://kedikultursanat.org/2012/03/01/ali-fuat-icsel/

Celal Uzel, mentioned in the second paragraph seems to be well known and famous.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=celal+uzel&source=web

 

Oh good grief, now I see that link was posted above already.

 

Many many thanks. I feel slightly vindicated LOL as there’s something very American to me about that specific scene compared to everything else I found on the internet so I find it interesting that he did study in the US.