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Sacha Kolin
untitled abstract
1970

Name: untitled abstract
Brand: Sacha Kolin
Rating: 4.9 (105 reviews)

$750List Price

About the Item

Sacha Kolin was born in Paris France to Malwina Slobodianiuk and Julius Kolin, a mechanical engineering student at Vienna's Technische Universität. Julius was in Paris at the time to test his airplane propeller designs at the Labatoire du Champ-de Mars under Gustave Eiffel's supervision. Sacha grew up in Vienna and trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Innenarchitektur with Oskar Strnad) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (sculpture and drawing). She exhibited in the annuals of the Secession and Künstlerhaus. In 1933, Sacha returned to Paris and studied in the studio of Naum Aronson, formerly a stonecarver for Rodin. Her sculptures were then traditional expressive busts of men, women and children - likened to those of Despiau. In her drawings, Sacha endeavored to apply Rodin’s method of preserving spontaneity (the ‘first impression’) with well-formed figuration. This facility for spare yet full gestural drawing - saying the most with the least - is a hallmark of Kolin’s graphic work. She participated in several Paris Salons and in 1935, was elected Societaire - the youngest full member - of the Nationale Societe des Beaux Arts. Sacha Kolin (age 25) and her parents immigrated to the United States in December 1936, and settled in New York City. Three months later, Sacha held her first one-person exhibition Modern Sculptures and Sketches at Rockefeller Center's P.E.D.A.C. Galleries. In 1940, she was one of 42 émigré artists (Albers, Drewes, Moholy-Nagy, Ozenfant et al.) to exhibit in New Americans of Friendship House at the New York World's Fair. From the 1940s, Sacha was inspired by American Indian lore and iconography. She began to incorporate native dance imagery and create flat-plane abstract compositions in a native palette. In the 1950s, she hosted a color workshop in her New York studio with Bauhaus-trained Hannes Beckmann and developed further in a non-objective style. Music was another passion, and Sacha sought to convey a lyrical expressiveness in her canvases. She participated regularly in art exhibitions with a musical theme and organized concerts in conjunction with art exhibitions. Her work of this time - in particular her watercolors - is likened to that of Kandinsky and Klee; her later painted sculpture and calligraphic drawings, to Arp and Miró. Although proficient in numerous media, Sacha considered herself primarily a sculptor. From the 1960s, her three-dimensional work became increasingly geometric - often monochromatic and based on the triangle. The triangle as a leitmotif and titled references to flight recall Sacha's paternal legacy in aeronautics and her experiences as a war-era refugee. Variations on interlocking and leaning triangles and other elemental forms address weight and balance, tension and grace. To heighten the illusion of precarious balance, the artist used reflective materials and highly polished metal finishes. In 1973, Sacha’s monumental aluminum sculpture Drawing in the Sky #1 was installed during her one-person exhibition (and remains on outdoor display) at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Her career history includes 19 one-person exhibitions and over 125 group shows. Sacha was an early member of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), which arranges collaborations between artists and engineers, and also joined Artist’s Equity Association, National Association of Women Artists, and League of Present Day Artists (Treasurer, 1954). She was a friend of mail artist Ray Johnson and a participant in the New York Correspondance School. Sacha received a Mark Rothko Foundation grant in 1973 and a New York State CAPS (Creative Artist Public Service) fellowship in 1978. Sacha Kolin (age 69) died on 14 February 1981 in New York City. She is remembered for her charm, enthusiasm and optimism. Her ability to reconceive darkness as joy, meld hard-edge geometry with tender humanity, and achieve a controlled spontaneity makes her work immediately identifiable and of enduring fascination and delight. Sacha's work is represented in over 70 public and private art collections in the United States and abroad. One-person Exhibitions 1937 P.E.D.A.C. Galleries (Permanent Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Crafts), RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY 1952 Burliuk Gallery, New York, NY 1955 Coeval Gallery, New York, NY 1957 Contemporary Arts, Inc., New York, NY 1959 Condon Riley Gallery, New York, NY 1960 Condon Riley Gallery, New York, NY 1962 Tutti Galleries, New York, NY (with Lawrence Lebduska) 1963 East Hampton Gallery, East Hampton, NY 1965 East Hampton Gallery, New York, NY; Racz Gallery, Detroit, MI; Treasure Chest, East Hampton, NY 1969 University Center, Long Island University, Brookville, NY 1972 Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY 1973 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1975 Davlyn Gallery, New York, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1976 Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1978 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY; Pace University Art Gallery, New York, NY 1980 RR Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibitions ACA Gallery, New York, NY Adelphi College, Garden City, NY ANTA Playhouse, New York, NY Argent Gallery, New York, NY Art League of Manatee Co. Art Center, Bradenton, FL Artists Equity House, New York, NY Ball State University, Muncie, IN Ludwig Baumann, New York, NY Berner Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY Arthur Brown & Bros., New York, NY Buecker & Harpsichords, New York, NY Burliuk Gallery, Hampton Bays, NY Burliuk Gallery, New York, NY Cafe Dome, New York, NY Caravan Gallery, New York, NY Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Collectors of American Art, Inc., New York, NY Contemporary Arts, Inc., New York, NY Creative Gallery, New York, NY Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH East Hampton Gallery, East Hampton and New York, NY Ward Eggleston Gallery, New York, NY Friendship House for Refugees, New York, NY Gallery 75, New York, NY Gallery 313, Washington, D.C. Gallery 29, New York, NY Gallery 256, Provincetown, MA Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY IBM Gallery, New York, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria Lighthouse of The New York Association for the Blind, New York, NY Maison des Arts, Brussels, Belgium Mercury Gallery, New York, NY Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art Lending Service, New York, NY Music Inn, Stockbridge, MA John Myers Foundation Gallery, New York, NY National Academy Galleries, New York, NY National Arts Club, New York, NY National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA New School for Social Research, New York, NY 92nd Street Y, New York, NY Olympian Gallery, T.S.S. Olympia, Greek Line Parish House, New York, NY Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Condon Riley Gallery, New York, NY Riverside Museum, New York, NY Rosenthal Gallery, New York, NY Salon, Paris, France Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France Secession, Vienna, Austria Shore Studios, Provincetown and Boston, MA Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, NY Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland Studio 18 Gallery, New York, NY Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego, NY Village Art Center, New York, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Woodward Gallery, New York, NY World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY (1940, American Art of Today building) Yeshiva University, New York, NY Public Collections Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Connecticut College, New London, CT Leo Baeck Institute, New York, NY Berry College Art Department Collection, Mt. Berry, GA Chazen Museum of Art (f/k/a Elvehjem Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Elvehjem Museum of Art, see Chazen Museum of Art Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Fordham University Art Collection, New York, NY Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Max Hutchinson's Sculpture Fields, Kenoza Lake, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, NY State Art Museum of Florida, Sarasota, FL Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV Trinity College Art Collection, Hartford, CT Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego, NY University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Creator:
Sacha Kolin (1911 - 1981, American)
Creation Year:
1970
Dimensions:
Height: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)Width: 19.75 in (50.17 cm)
Medium:
Rag Paper,Watercolor
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
very minor loss at corner, some slight age toning and some minor creasing in margin.
Gallery Location:
Surfside, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU382126576

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