Siegfried Arno / Aron (GERMAN, 1895 - 1975) original portrait oil painting on canvas depicting the artist's mother with checkered design shirt. A great addition to the collection of an enthusiast of the actor /artist. Signed "arno" to lower right. Mounted in a gold painted wooden frame with fabric matting. Oil on stretcher measures approx. 20" height x 18" width. Measures approx. 25 1/2" height x 23 3/4" widthoverall including mat & frame. Provenance: Acquired from a Boca Raton, FL estate. About the artist: was a German-Jewish film actor who appeared in such films as Pardon My Sarong and The Mummy's Hand. He may be bestremembered from The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Toto, the nonsense-talking mustachioed man who hopelessly pursues Mary Astor's "Princess Centimillia". Arno was also a successful portrait painter. He was marriedthree times: Caroline Dahms (1922–1932, ended in divorce, 1 child), Barbara Kiranoff (1934–1953, ended in divorce) and Kitty Mattern (1953–1975, ended with his death).

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