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Sonia Gechtoff"False Faces" Sonia Gechtoff, circa 1950 Social Commentary Realist Painting1950-1952
1950-1952
$12,000
£9,161.68
€10,493.33
CA$16,811.95
A$18,797.81
CHF 9,860.24
MX$227,686.64
NOK 124,466.11
SEK 117,590.40
DKK 78,322.29
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Sonia Gechtoff
False Faces, circa 1950-52
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 22 1/4 inches
Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel "Etya" and Leonid Gechtoff. Her mother managed art galleries, including her own East and West gallery located at 3108 Fillmore Street in San Francisco. Her father was a highly successful genre artist from Odesa, Ukraine. He introduced his daughter to painting and "had her sit beside him at his easel with a brush and paints and beginning at age six he was there to spur her on".
Gechtoff's talent was recognized early and she was put in a succession of schools and classes for artistically gifted children. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a B.F.A. in 1950.
Sonia Gechtoff was part of the Abstract Expressionist flowering that took place in the Bay Area between the late 1940s and late ’50s, along with Jay DeFeo and Deborah Remington. One of the centers of this convulsive outburst was Clyfford Still, who taught at the California School of the Arts (1946–50). Gechtoff, who moved to San Francisco from Philadelphia in 1951, was inspired by Still’s work to begin painting with a palette knife. Still’s solemn, moody abstractions enabled Gechtoff to shed her previous indebtedness to Ben Shahn’s socialist realist style and concerns.
- Creator:Sonia Gechtoff (1926 - 2018)
- Creation Year:1950-1952
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Unique WorkPrice: $12,000
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841215197842
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