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Michael Forster
Abstraction, Mauves

1981

$18,000
£13,482.76
€15,585.38
CA$25,277.68
A$27,531.46
CHF 14,571.43
MX$336,855.97
NOK 180,309.96
SEK 170,201.51
DKK 116,325.75

About the Item

This marvelous work done in the rich palette of mauves and intermittent blues, greens and whites is a dynamic work that would bring movement to any room. Forster was a Canadian artist who went to Mexico for an extended time and was immersed with the famous artists of the time such as Rufino Tamayo. Forster became of founding member of the surrealist movement in Canada. He referred to this type of painting as one of his "inner Landscapes" and in many ways also draws upon ideas he took away from J. W. Turners works. It is in a lovely and high quality gold leafed frame of modern profile. The size of the work is 24 x 31 inside the frame so our listed size is its total dimensions.
  • Creator:
    Michael Forster (1907 - 2002, Canadian)
  • Creation Year:
    1981
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)Width: 37 in (93.98 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    In lovely ready to hang condition!!!
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 141371stDibs: LU1413210607252

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Sunrise Dance, Celestial Sky
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Heavily influenced by the works of his close friend the famous Mexico City painter Rufino Tamayo, Forster created a special focus on the supremacy of color. And of larger context paintings that explored both nature and the universe. His paintings speak to all and of our oneness within this realm and an appreciation of it. The work is positive and wishes to unite and expand our vision outward from ourselves. This painting has a warmth of color that will enrich any room and compliment furniture and ambience. It is in a gold frame that has some wear to the gold patina. It is signed on the verso with an artist's cache of initials and it has the inventory # 798A from the estate, along with a date of 1992 on the back. The work comes out of the artist's estate as well as Messums Gallery from London. The piece measures 35 x 49 inches inside its frame. Forster's all-absorbing passion for color resulted in such magnificent gestural pictures as Sunrise Dance, 1992 with its intense color palette. Consistently experimenting and initiating fresh use of paint, Michael Forster...
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