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Rolph ScarlettAbstract and Drip
$20,000
£15,359.14
€17,601.39
CA$28,155.06
A$31,539.89
CHF 16,435.16
MX$384,721.56
NOK 208,853.16
SEK 196,933.64
DKK 131,371.92
About the Item
Signed lower right.
Description
An example of Scarlett’s abstract drip painting, this untitled work has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, rose, and blue and white, with prominent yet thin traces of paint dripped across the canvas on top.
About the artist
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric and linear forms, an industrial designer, and a pioneer in helping establish non-objective art as an aesthetic in America. He also worked in an abstract art style during the American avant-garde movement which extended into the 1940s. He was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and travelled to New York City as an 18-year-old. By 1924 he made New York City his home.
In 1939, Scarlett was one of the founding members and forces which steered the development of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York. (later, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Guggenheim was the sponsor behind the Avant Garde and pioneering, philosophy of Baroness Hilla Rebay who founded the early museum. She was both the founding curator and director of the museum, as well as an abstract artist. She encouraged and worked with Scarlett in the early museum years, together promoting the concepts of non-objective painting. In Scarlett’s aesthetic these where geometric elements intuitively placed in non-descript flat and three-dimensional space.
Any discussion of the history of the Guggenheim Museum must include four key figures: Hilla Rebay (1890-1967), Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Rudolf Bauer (1889-1953), and Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984). The museum collected and showed numerous works by Kandinsky and Klee (who Scarlett met in Geneva in 1923, and who encouraged him toward Modernism). Bauer and Scarlett works constituted many of the early exhibitions. Scarlett being the only American among the initial group.
Scarlett’s work represented the third most in the museum’s collection, with 60 pieces. By the 1940’s Scarlett’s role had increased to become the museums chief speaker and expert on non-objective art, as well as a central artist in exhibitions. His geometric, abstract, style flourished. By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly sixty of his paintings and monoprints. He later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than twenty-five years and showed his work in the Woodstock exhibits.
Unlike Kandinsky, who influenced Scarlett’s classic, non-objective, art, Scarlett focus was on the forms, shapes and the intuitive rhythms of geometry and the balance of color - with no abstract reference to the real natural world. Rolph Scarlett was a consummate explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting.
Scarlett’s works have sold privately for over $100,000 dollars. At auction, the highest prices have reached $87,000 dollars. His drip abstract paintings have achieved received results up to $30,000 dollars.
- Creator:Rolph Scarlett (1891-1984, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Saratoga Springs, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU17028235512
Rolph Scarlett
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Scarlett was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1889, he left Canada at the age of 18 to go to New York City and returned to Canada during the years of World War I. However, by 1924, Scarlett had established New York City as his home. While he was beginning his career as an abstract painter, he was designing stage scenery for George Bernard Shaw's play, Man and Superman and the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. In 1939, while creating the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Director Hilla Rebay began to take an interest in Scarlett's work. By 1940, he had become the new museum's chief lecturer. By 1953, the Guggenheim owned nearly 60 of his paintings and monoprints. Scarlett later became a resident of the Woodstock art colony for more than 25 years and showed his work in the Woodstock exhibits.
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