American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980 Drawings & Prints the tray likely made in

the tray likely made in Damascus

Raised on a circular shaped foot and marked to the base with the underglaze blue scepter & orb mark and the letters KPM

A large & fine antique sterling silver sugar caster

the figures in Greco-Roman dress and having a band of icons from antiquity below

which was first brought back from the Americas in the late 1500's

American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980 Drawings & Prints the tray likely made inSOLD American cubist portrait painting of the American academic Michael Lerner, by the Modernist artist Michael Hurson (1941 2007). This whimsical portrait is painted in the cubist style and is of the American academic & medieval historian professor Robert Lerner, the composition is in pencil and charcoal with pastel & gouache on handmade paper. Michael Hurson was a modernist, innovative painter and sculptor whose styles ranged from Cubism to Pop Art,