Friedel Dzubas Furniture

German, 1915-1994

Friedel Dzubas was born April 20, 1915 in Berlin and studied at the Prussian Academy of Fine Art and under Paul Klee while in Düsseldorf from 1936 to 1939. In 1939, Dzubas fled Germany for London and the United States where he later became a citizen. In 1948, he he answered art critic Clement Greenberg's anonymous advertisement for a summer roommate. It was the height of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in New York, and through Greenberg Dzubas met Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. Later, in the early 1950s, Dzubas shared a studio with Helen Frankenthaler, associating with some of the younger generation of abstract painters in New York including Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland. In the early 1950s, he began exhibiting his work in New York. In the 1960s, he started experimenting with color field painting. Dzubas' mature paintings since the 1960s assimilate his early interest in German Romanticism and Expressionism into post-war American abstraction. "He abandoned oil paint for Magna acrylic in 1965 when he found he could achieve with a brevity of gesture the brilliance and luminosity of oil paint applied in thin veils of color. He could thus effect the richness and variation of traditional glazed tones using a more expressive, immediate process. By the early 1980s, Dzubas abandoned his preliminary preparations of sketching and priming, thereby inviting spontaneity and accident into his painting process. Although he typically coated his canvas with a gesso primer before painting, he began to apply it so thinly that the pigment was almost immediately absorbed into the ground, making it impossible for him to revise and rework his compositions. Dzubas' change in technique reveals a thoroughly modernist sensibility: "I like that risk," he explained. "I think, to a certain degree, I have to make it mechanically difficult and unreliable for myself. If I can predict the effect too much, then I probably am not supposed to be doing it. I function better if my footing is not too sure, so to speak." The rich, velvety hues of Grade's reds, greens, and blues appear radiant in places. Dzubas heightened his color drama -- a drama characterized as quintessentially Baroque by some critics-- by varying the density of his paint. His rectangular forms appear to ebb and flow in an orchestrated movement across the surface of the picture plane." (Megan Bahr) A retrospective of Dzubas' work was shown at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston in 1974 and at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston the following year. In 1983, Dzubas was honored with an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (ASKART)

Creator: Friedel Dzubas

Friedel Dzubas Color Field Lithograph, Orange, Teal & Blue Abstract, Signed 1976

$4,950

Friedel Dzubas Color Field Lithograph, Orange, Teal & Blue Abstract, Signed 1976

By Friedel Dzubas

Located in New York, NY

Friedel Dzubas Color Field Lithograph, Orange, Teal & Blue Abstract, Signed 1976. Large color lithograph on heavy wove paper, floating in a period 1970s plexibox. Signed in penci...

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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Vibrant Abstract Color Lithograph #2 by Angelo Savelli

$750Sale Price|37% Off

H 23.75 in W 29.5 in D 1 in

Vibrant Abstract Color Lithograph #2 by Angelo Savelli

Located in Atlanta, GA

Vibrant Abstract Color Lithograph #2 by Angelo Savelli, Italian, 1991-1995. Color lithograph executed on thick paper. Pencil signed and numbered by the artist. Framed in a simple, cl...

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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Vibrant Abstract Color Lithograph #1 by Angelo Savelli

$750Sale Price|37% Off

H 29.5 in W 23.75 in D 1 in

Vibrant Abstract Color Lithograph #1 by Angelo Savelli

Located in Atlanta, GA

Vibrant Abstract Color Lithograph #1 by Angelo Savelli, Italian, 1991-1995. Color lithograph executed on thick paper. Pencil signed and numbered by the artist. Framed in a simple, cl...

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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Contemporary Signed French Abstract Color Lithograph, Colorful French Modern Art

$1,050

H 2 in W 29.88 in D 0.07 in

Contemporary Signed French Abstract Color Lithograph, Colorful French Modern Art

Located in Miami, FL

Modern French Color Lithograph signed Fitzori, French school color lithograph Titled "Bonjour Madame". This original French color lithograph bursting with vibrant, eye-catching col...

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20th Century French Modern Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Josef Albers Abstract Lithographs from Interaction of Color

$950 / set

H 10.25 in W 7.5 in D 1 in

Josef Albers Abstract Lithographs from Interaction of Color

By Josef Albers

Located in Atlanta, GA

Josef Albers abstract lithographs from folder XI-1, interaction of color, circa 1960s. updated

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Alexander Calder "Merging Curves" Unsigned Abstract Color Lithograph

$1,160Sale Price|20% Off

H 21.25 in W 28 in D 1 in

Alexander Calder "Merging Curves" Unsigned Abstract Color Lithograph

By Alexander Calder

Located in Skokie, IL

Alexander Calder "Merging Curves" Unsigned Abstract Color Lithograph "Merging Curves" is an abstract color lithograph by American artist and sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976). ...

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Original Vintage Abstract Color Lithograph, Komposition by Anders Fogelin

$324Sale Price|20% Off

H 24.02 in W 27.17 in D 0.79 in

Original Vintage Abstract Color Lithograph, Komposition by Anders Fogelin

Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie

Anders Fogelin, Komposition, 1974 Color lithograph Number 97/200 Work with the artist's signature, title and individual number (in pencil) Working dimensions 61/69 The work is framed...

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1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Jacques Villon Color Lithograph Hand Signed Abstract Art Mid Century Duchamp

$1,550

H 21 in W 23.75 in D 0.75 in

Jacques Villon Color Lithograph Hand Signed Abstract Art Mid Century Duchamp

By Jacques Villon

Located in Atlanta, GA

Colorful Hand Signed Lithograph, by Jacques Villon, France, circa 1960s. This work is entitled "Marchands Quatres Saisons" and is likely the limited signed edition from the folio "Re...

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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Josef Albers Abstract Lithographs from Interaction of Color

$1,400 / set

H 7.75 in W 14 in D 1 in

Josef Albers Abstract Lithographs from Interaction of Color

By Josef Albers

Located in Atlanta, GA

Pair of Josef Albers abstract lithographs from folder XVI-2 interaction of color, circa 1960s. updated

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Original Vintage Abstract Color Lithograph, Komposition, Framed, 1981

$209Sale Price|75% Off

H 24.81 in W 27.96 in D 0.4 in

Original Vintage Abstract Color Lithograph, Komposition, Framed, 1981

Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie

Unknown author, Composition, 1981 Color lithograph The number 8/50 Work with the artist's signature and individual number Working dimensions 63/71 The wor...

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1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Paper

Josef Albers Abstract Lithographs from Interaction of Color

$800 / set

H 14 in W 11 in D 0.75 in

Josef Albers Abstract Lithographs from Interaction of Color

By Josef Albers

Located in Atlanta, GA

Pair of abstract color lithographs by Joseph Albers from the "Interaction of Color" portfolio, folder number VIII-2, circa 1960s. The price noted below is for the pair of framed works.

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Glass, Paper, Wood

Arnold Mesches Signed Chair Series Large Color Lithograph, 1969

$895

H 36 in W 46 in D 1.5 in

Arnold Mesches Signed Chair Series Large Color Lithograph, 1969

Located in Studio City, CA

A very engaging and somewhat scarce work by the Bronx, NY-born controversial American artist Arnold Meches. This piece is one of his from his most recognizable works the chair series that he did in the 1950s/60s and perhaps a bit of a precursor to Andy Warhol's 1967 "Electric Chair" image albeit somewhat less provocative. Signed and dated (1969) in pencil by the artist in the lower right margin. Arnold Mesches...

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Paper

Josef Albers Abstract Leaves Lithographs from Interaction of Color

$750 / set

H 10.25 in W 7.25 in D 1 in

Josef Albers Abstract Leaves Lithographs from Interaction of Color

By Josef Albers

Located in Atlanta, GA

Abstract leaves color Lithographs, by Joseph Albers from the "Interaction of Color" portfolio, circa 1960s. The larger lithograph measures 10.25" H x 7.25" W. The smaller measures 7....

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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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Glass, Wood, Paper

Previously Available Items

Large Scale Silkscreen by Friedel Pzubas

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H 68.5 in W 45.5 in D 1.5 in

Large Scale Silkscreen by Friedel Pzubas

By Friedel Dzubas

Located in Stamford, CT

Friedel Pzubas ( April 1915-December 1994 ) German born American abstract painter. Signed lower right '74 and numbered 90/144. Measures: Sheet : 59" H x 40.5" W.

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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Furniture

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