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Seymour Lipton Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

American, 1903-1986
Seymour Lipton was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and he is best known for his work in metal. He made several technical innovations, including brazing nickel-silver rods onto sheets of Monel to create rust resistant forms. Through the medium of metal sculpture, Lipton endeavored to portray the inner complexities of the human psyche through shapes that enclose and oppose each other, interrelating convex and concave, solid and hollowed forms. Although his imagery was often based on visual stimuli, his expressive abstractions were never literal translations of the visible world. He altered and arranged shapes to create sculptures symbolizing intangible, universal concepts absorbed from sociology, psychology, and myth.
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Artist: Seymour Lipton
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture Black crayon on paper, 1959 Signed and dated middle right (see photo) A rare 1950's AbEx drawing. Provenance: Estate of the artist Michael and Ala...
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1950s Abstract Seymour Lipton Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Crayon

Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Diadem
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Diadem Black Crayon on paper, 1957 Signed and dated lower left The preliminary drawing for the 1957 sculpture of the same name in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art...
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1950s Abstract Seymour Lipton Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Crayon

Study for Pacific Bird Sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Lipton Study for Pacific Bird Sculpture, 1965 Crayon on paper (Hand Signed & Dated, in Kulicke Frame w/Marlborough-Gerson gallery label) Signed and dated on center right rect...
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Untitled sculptural study
By Seymour Lipton
Located in New York, NY
SEYMOUR LIPTON Untitled sculpture drawing, 1979 Charcoal on paper Original drawing done in charcoal by renowned sculptor Seymour Lipton Provenance: Michael and Alan Lipton, the artis...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Seymour Lipton Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Untitled sculptural study
By Seymour Lipton
Located in New York, NY
SEYMOUR LIPTON Seymour Lipton Untitled sculptural study, 1981 Charcoal on paper hand signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the front Framed Original drawing done in charcoal by...
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Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Catacombs
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Estate of the artist Michael and Alan Lipton (sons) Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, PA De-accessed 2017 Note: Lipton did a large number of preliminary...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Seymour Lipton Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Crayon

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