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Toni LaSelleSky + Sea / Nick's Wharf1946
1946
$8,412.50
£6,000
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CA$11,480.65
A$12,784.73
CHF 6,653.75
MX$157,634.23
NOK 84,740.57
SEK 79,647.92
DKK 53,190.90
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Toni LaSelle (1901–2002) was a pioneering American modernist and a key figure in shaping
modern art education in the United States. Strongly influenced by European movements such as the Bauhaus and Constructivism, LaSelle’s practice is defined by a rigorous and elegant exploration of colour, form, and spatial harmony. As both an artist and teacher, she played a
critical role in introducing and advocating modernist ideas in America, long before they were widely embraced.
In the margins of Post-war American modernism, where New York's downtown clamour drowned out many regional voices, Dorothy Antoinette “Toni” LaSelle (1901–2002) composed a quiet, rigorous modernism that was at once fiercely independent and uncannily attuned to international
currents. For decades, LaSelle maintained her artistic practice from Denton, Texas, while building a transatlantic conversation with the European avant-garde and its American interpreters—notably Hans Hofmann and László Moholy-Nagy. That she remained largely overlooked during her lifetime speaks less to the work's significance than to the narrow lens of the art historical canon.
- Creator:Toni LaSelle (1901 - 2002, American)
- Creation Year:1946
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 9.75 in (24.77 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2039216547072
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