Schneebaum Abstract Painting

Picked this up at a thrift store this afternoon. 48 X 30 oil on hardboard, Signed Schneebaum 54. I looked in Davenports and Who Was Who and Tobias Schneebaum is the only one that shows up with that last name. Examples I found are not similar to this painting. Hoping someone might be able to come up with a better example and a signature example.

 

Anything on the back?

Debora

 

Has to be him - who else? Although most of the stuff online is more in an illustrative style, some of his stuff looks more like this.

I guess you saw this?
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/tobias-schneebaum-american-1922-2005-1844421033

Can't say I'm a fan though, but each to their own I suppose.

 

Here's a signature from a later work for comparison.

Debora

 

we have to think about "each to their own"; much abuse since Roman times...
no surprise that he lead a crazy life, probably being aware of his possible fate as Jew and homosexual, if his family hadn't emigrated.

 

No, writing or documentation on the back.

 

Thanks. Same kind of hand made frame. Structurally the painting is similar, just wider brush strokes. I suspect they are abstracted images from his time in Peru. Mine kind of reminds me of looking through tall grass.

 

Word of caution: There is not enough "evidence" at this moment to definitively attribute your work to the painter Tobias Schneebaum.

Debora

 

Here's another signature from a work contemporaneous to yours.

Debora

 

Yes of course, a good part of my collection lives in that "probably by" category because so many things come from thrift stores and estate sales and putting together a line of ownership or provenance is next to impossible.

 

I found one very similar to mine, auction titled "Three Abstract Oil on Board".
Image was tiny

 

Sorry, I don't see resemblance to yours. Starting with the fact that yours is a landscape and the three are figural.

Debora

 

JMHO. when you read his biography, he has extreme breaks and changes of direction. I'd not be amazed if he changed style, signature and colors like he did with his places of living.

 

I meant the manner in which the signature was written.