Mose Tolliver Art

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

A mixed media artwork by Jim Dine. A silverpoint and acrylic on 2 joined canvases, wood, knife, and string in artist's frame work by Post War artist Jim Dine. "Double Silver Point Robes" depicts the outline of two robes in silverpoint on a white acrylic painted ground. Jim Dine's use of his favorite bathrobe, a frequent image in his works, is a self portrait which connects an everyday object and imbues it with meaning. This Robe painting was part of the first exhibition of Robe paintings at Sidney Janis...

Italian male nude oil painting on wood panel, circa 1930. Stunning and unusual framed Italian male nude oil painting on a wood panel. This Italian A...

Bold and textured still life by Diana Mallett (American, b. 1981). A bright yellow banana and bright red apple sit on a multicolored surface, against a dark blue background. This pie...

Original art by DARIA KUSTO The magic flow reality.. Acrylic on canvas Shipped From Spain.

Handcrafted mother-of-pearl painting with Chrysanthemum design.

Entrelacements I is the first of two different medium size contemporary modern sculpture painting reliefs by French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. The relie...

Intersection IV 12/25 is one of a series of originally four different small size contemporary modern sculpture painting reliefs by French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. From this series...

Bedfellows refers to partnerships and celebrates relationships. This piece is subtle and beautiful. The pale, purple paint accentuates the carved texture. The piece is framed in wh...

Antique orientalist painting of Cairo, Egypt by Anton 'Tony' Binder (1868-1944), oil on panel, circa 1895. The painting depicting a villag...

Rare modernist abstract oil painting on panel made in Sweden in the 1960’s by an unknown talented Swedish artist. The painting is the perfect detail for any style of interior and fits any style of interior from a traditional Scandinavian style of interior or even a more modern style of interior. The painting is very typical for its time and fits perfectly together with traditional Scandinavian furniture design like Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Axel Einar Hjorth or Hans J Wegner or other big designers of that period but also with more antique baroque furniture...

This sculpture light is a captivating addition to the Art + Light series, where the interplay of light and art creates a unique and fascinating effect. The wooden cube is covered wit...