A bold, graphic painting on canvas by listed New York artist Margarita Gibbons (1906-1976).
Hand signed lower right
Oil painting on canvas.
Abstract geometrical composition in blue, red, and black colors.
Titled 'Dual Principle'.
Gibbons studied at the Art Students League of New York and Pratt Institute of Art.
Exhibitions included National Association of Women Artists and Society of Independent Artists.
Margarita Gibbons (1906-1976) was a painter from New York City. Gibbons originally performed as a ballerina for the Metropolitan Opera House Corps de Ballet, as a dancer, before pursuing a career as a fine artist. (She was there with Martha Graham). Margarita studied with Bolm and Fokine and performed in the 1924 music box revue for Irving Berlin. Her close friends were dancers Ruth Page and Helen Tamiris Becker. She studied at the Art Students League, Pratt institute and later in Paris and Amsterdam. Her work has been shown in a number of galleries and museums including the Argent gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gibbons first husband was Ecuadorian painter Camilo Egas (friends with Jose Clemente Orozco, Willem De Kooning, Pablo Picasso and Oswaldo Guayasamin) whom she brought to the United States. They lived in Greenwich Village, New York City. In the 1940s and 1950s, his work moved away from Indigenismo and social realism toward Surrealism, neo-Cubism, and eventually Abstract expressionism.
Her second husband was American illustrator and painter Arthur Getz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Miami - Art