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Carl HoltyTwelfth Night Blue, Contemporary Color Field painting1962
1962
About the Item
Conceived of as one half of a diptych, together with Twelfth Night Red, the title of this painting suggest a reference to William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night and its main characters, twins Viola and Sebastian, tragically separated by a shipwreck. As with many of his late canvas', Holty experimented with the relationship of space and form within a two-dimensional plane working in large, soft-edged color forms, mixed and floated over chromatic stains.
This painting does not have to be purchased with its mate. It is a significant color field work by an important American abstractionist. It is from the Color Field movement in American Art.
It is in a Silvered 24 karat leafed float frame that is contemporary.
In beautiful condition ready to hang.
- Creator:Carl Holty (1900 - 1973, American)
- Creation Year:1962
- Dimensions:Height: 72.25 in (183.52 cm)Width: 58.25 in (147.96 cm)
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- Condition:This is a large canvas which is generally in excellent condition for a work of this time period. It has the wear and surface imperfections of any canvas from this time period. It has been cleaned and well restored and is in good condition.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141328603982
Carl Holty
Born in Freiburg, Germany, Carl Holty moved with his parents to a Germain community in Milwaukee when he was an infant. He began studying art at the Milwaukee Normal School under instructors who had trained in Europe and later continued his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1919, following a summer at an artists' colony in Saugatuck, Michigan, Holty enrolled at Parsons School of Design and the National Academy of Design, both in New York. He briefly considering entering medical school, his father’s profession, though with the help of his grandfather, returned to Germany to continue his art education. It was at Hans Hofman’s school that Holty would be introduced to the principles of modernist composition and ideas in painting and drawing, an influence he would consider his main focus throughout his career. Hofmann "first opened my eyes to the plastic nature of drawing." Holty once recalled. Displaying no interest in the predominant style of expressionism, popular in Germany at the time, Holty focused on the tenants of Cubism, Fauvism, and Futurism which lead him, in 1928, to relocate to Paris. Holty quickly became part of the active artistic community in the nation’s capital associating with many of the major figures of international avant-garde art including Miro, Mondrian, Arp, and Delaunay, the latter of which sponsored Holty to become one of only two American members of the Abstraction-Creation group founded by Theo Van Doesburg. Holty returned to America in 1936 becoming a significant figure in the development of abstract art. He reconnected with his old mentor Hans Hofmann and developed friendships with many of the City’s rising artist’s including Vaclav Vytlacil whom he had known in Paris. It was this group that formed the American Abstract Artists association, where Holty would serve as chairman in 1938 and with whom he’d exhibit with through 1944. It was during this period Holty abandoned Cubism for Biomorphism, leaving behind edges to explore shapes and forms that ultimately lead to his color field paintings of the mid 1950s and through the remainder of his career.
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