Artist Ralph Fasanella (1914 - 1997)

Tony Pastor's Place

Date1947

DimensionsSight: 29 5/16 × 46 1/2 in. (74.5 × 118.1 cm)

Object numberN0013.2005(01)

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Jane Ferrara, in memory of Ronald A. Ferrara

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextTony Pastor's Place was an internationally famous Greenwich Village club that had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. For Fasanella, it represented cultural and spiritual emptiness and social destruction. As always, Fasanella expresses his point of view through the use of color, in this case the oppressive greys and black, and dead white flesh tones of the club's denizens.

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