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Toni LaSelle
Sky + Sea / Nick's Wharf

1946

$8,406.69
£6,000
€7,187.64
CA$11,466.71
A$12,838.14
CHF 6,731.46
MX$158,623.23
NOK 84,820.58
SEK 80,067.24
DKK 53,628.60
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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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