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Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Sadamasa Motonaga. This Untitled, abstract, oil on canvas painting in executed in a lush and thick palette of primarily reds, greens, o...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Sadamasa Motonaga. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, acrylic on board with cotton cloth in a bold palette or purples, reds, and blues...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic, Board
Stripes
By Kenneth Noland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A monotype on Japanese handmade paper by Kenneth Noland. “Stripes” is an abstract, unique monotype print, in a palette of pastel colors by American abstract artist, Kenneth Noland. T...
Category
1980s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Handmade Paper, Monotype
Chevron
By Kenneth Noland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A geometric abstract monotype on Japanese handmade paper mounted on board by Post War artist Kenneth Noland.
Provenance:
Experimental Workshop;
Private Collection.
Category
1980s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Handmade Paper, Monotype
Phenomena with Black Anadem
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Paul Jenkins. "Phenomena with Black Anadem" is an abstract painting, ink, acrylic, and oil on canvas in a palette of dark blues and black by American, Abstract Expressi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Crucifix
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Crucifix" is an abstract Post War oil over monotype painting by Hans Burkhardt in 1981. The artwork is 11 x 7 5/8 inches and, with the frame, is 14 1/4 x 10 3/8 x 3/4 inches. It is ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
Untitled, Figure Study
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled, Figure Study" is an abstract figurative Post War pastel on paper paintings by Hans Burkhardt in 1967. The artwork is 21 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches and, with the frame, is 28 3/4...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled (Abstract Figure Study)
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Abstract Figure Study)" is an abstract figurative Post War mixed media on paper painting by Hans Burkhardt in 1979. The artwork is 22 1/2 x 15 inches and, with the frame, ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled, portrait of artist in studio
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled, portrait of artist in studio" is an abstract figurative Post War pastel on paper painting by Hans Burkhardt in 1971. The artwork is 25 x 19 1/2 inches and, with the frame,...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled No. 7
By Agnes Martin
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled No. 7" is an abstract Post War acrylic, pencil and gesso on canvas by Agnes Martin in 1974. The artwork is 72 x 72 inches and, with the frame, is 72 3/8 x 72 3/8 x 1 1/2 in...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil
Translumina
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Translumina" is an abstract Post War acrylic on wood painting by Richard Anuszkiewicz in 1988. The artwork is 48 x 48 in. It is signed verso, "Richard Anuszkiewicz 1988".
Op Art em...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Girl with Muff
By Robert Henri
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Girl with Muff" is aa American figurative portrait oil on canvas painting by Robert Henri in 1912. The artwork is 57 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches and, with the frame, is 64 1/4 x 45 1/4 x 2 ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico
By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Georgia O'Keeffe . "Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico" is a modern art oil on canvas by American female artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe was among the most influential figures in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico.
Provenance:
An American Place, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Max Ascoli, New York, 1944
Descended in family
Harold Diamond, New York, c. 1975
Gerald Peters...
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Waiting Figure
By Roland Petersen
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Waiting Figure" is a Post War abstract landscape oil on canvas painting by Roland Petersen in 1967. The artwork is 68 x 56 inches and, with the frame, is 69 3/8 x 57 1/2 x 3 inches....
Category
20th Century Post-War Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Zoo
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Zoo" is an abstract Post War oil on panel painting by Hans Hofmann in 1944. The artwork is 21 3/8 x 24 1/2 inches and, with the frame, is 22 1/4 x 25 1/2 x 2 inches.
"The Zoo...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Indian
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Indian" is an abrtsact Post War mixed media on paper work by Han Hofmann in 1944. The artwork is 22 x 15 inches and, with the frame, is 29 1/4 x 22 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches, weighing ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Fruit Bowl No. 1
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Fruit Bowl No. 1" is an abstact still-life Post War oil on canvas painting by Hans Hofmann in 1949. The artwork is 29 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches and with the frame is 38 1/8 x 46 1/8 x 3 1...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape No. 108
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Landscape No. 108" is an abstract Post War oil on panel painting by Hans Hofmann in 1941. The artwork is 23 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches and with the frame is 31 1/8 x 37 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches,...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Astral Image No. 1
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Astral Image No. 1 (M-1133)" is an abstract Post War oil on canvas painting by Hans Hofmann in 1947. The artwork is 48 x 60 inches and with the frame is 50 x 62 x 1 3/4 inches, weig...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baal
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Baal (M-1128)" is an abstract Post War oil on canvas painting by Hans Hofmann in 1947. The artwork is 59 3/8 x 47 1/4 inches and with the frame is 68 x 56 x 3 1/8 inches, weighing l...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Santiago Carbonell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Santiago Carbonell. "Untitled" is an interior, realism painting, oil on canvas executed in a warm palette of browns, beiges, and black...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in a Rowboat
By Willem de Kooning
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is an abstract, oil on paper laid on masonite painting executed in a lush and swirling palette primarily of greens, whites, beiges and yellow and depicting an abstracted, nude woman in a boat by Post War artist Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is a seminal work by de Kooning that has a new fluidity which relates to his next major series of Woman paintings which he began in 1964. Signed lower left, "de Kooning."
Provenance:
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, Arizona
Exhibition:
North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only) New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26
Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated
Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist)
Easthampton, Gild Hall...
Category
1960s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Oil
Portrait of Enriqueta G. Dávila
By Diego Rivera
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Diego Rivera. "Portrait of Enriqueta G. Dávila" is a modern portrait, oil on canvas in a palette of whites, browns, purples, and reds by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The artwork is signed in the lower left, "Diego Rivera" and dated and inscribed in the upper center, "Señora Doña Enriqueta G. de Dávila. Fue pintado el año de MCMLII".
Think of artists from Mexico...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Song of Love
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Song of Love" is an abstract Post-War oil painting on canvas created by Hans Hofmann in 1952. The artwork is 36.25 x 48.25 inches and is 45.25 x 57.25 x 2 inches with the frame, weighing less than 50 lbs. It is signed on the lower right, "Hans Hofmann" and also signed verso, "Hans Hofmann".
Hofmann's art is characterized by its expressive use of color planes, often overlapping and intersecting to create a sense of tension and harmony simultaneously. With the delicate mark-making and use of negative space across the canvas, “Song of Love” is reminiscent of the automatic drawings and paintings of Surrealists Andre Masson and Joan Miró, blended with the drips of paint in the large blue swaths of the Abstract Expressionist style.
Provenance:
The Artist, 1952-1958
Collection Harvey Kaplan, Chicago,1958-1962
Michael Reese...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naturaleza Muerta
By Rufino Tamayo
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Naturaleza Muerta" is an oil on canvas work painted by Rufino Tamayo in 1935. The artwork size is 29 1/4 x 58 3/4 inches. The framed size is 40 1/4 x 69 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches. The work...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)
By Winslow Homer
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)" is a painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is signed, lower left, "Homer 1873". The framed piece measures 29 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.
During the early 1870s, Winslow Homer frequently painted scenes of country living near a small farm hamlet renowned for generations for its remarkable stands of wheat, situated between the Hudson River and the Catskills in New York state. Today Hurley is far more famous for inspiring one of Homer’s greatest works, Snap the Whip...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Water No. 5
By Lee Krasner
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Water No. 5" is an abstract gouache on howell paper painting by Lee Krasner in 1969. The artwork is 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches and is 18 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches with the frame, weigh...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Parisian Model
By Max Weber
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Parisian Model" is an oil on canvas painting by Max Weber painted in 1908. The work is signed and dated, lower right, "Max Weber Paris 1908". The painting size is 35 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. The framed size is 43 x 27 x 2 1/4 inches.
"Parisian Model" was painted in 1908, when Weber participated in a life class in Matisse's studio in Paris and painted several nudes. Weber was influenced toward a more Cubist styler after seeing Cezanne's work in the 1906-07 Salon in Paris, and he consorted within avant-garde circles in Paris as early as 1905. After returning to the US in 1909, Weber was credited with showing American audiences Cubism based on his firsthand knowledge of the key players and the style.
Several drawings of Weber's from this time are in museum collections at The Met, the Smithsonian, and MoMA and show a similar style and stocatto gesture. Parisian paintings by Max Weber are extremely rare as there are hardly any that have sold publicly.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gerald Peters Gallery...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Leta and the Hill Myna
By Mel Ramos
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Leta and the Hill Myna" is a painting by American Pop artist Mel Ramos. The work is signed verso "Mel Ramos".
Mel Ramos is a California based Pop artist best known for his paintings of superheroes and female nudes, including Marilyn Monroe and Scarlet Johansson, with pop culture imagery. Many of his subjects emerge from Chiquita bananas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quart and a Half
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Quart and a Half" is an American Realist abstract landscape watercolor on paper painting by Andrew Wyeth in 1961. The artwork is 21 x 29 1/4 inches and is 33 3/4 x 42 1/4 x 1 inches...
Category
20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
West to East
By Ross Bleckner
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An oil on linen canvas painting by contemporary artist Ross Bleckner. "West to East" is an abstract oil painting executed in deep and brilliant orange on a neutral ground...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ohne Titel (Merzbild Mit Schuhsohle) (Untitled (Merz Picture with Shoe Sole))
By Kurt Schwitters
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Ohne Titel (Merzbild Mit Schuhsohle) (Untitled (Merz Picture with Shoe Sole))" is an abstract Post War oil and relief assemblage on plywood painting made by Kurt Schwitters in 1945....
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Abstraktes Bild 758-2
By Gerhard Richter
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Abstraktes Bild 758-2" is an oil on canvas painting by Gerhard Richter. The framed size is 28 1/4 x 36 x 2 1/2 inches. The work is signed verso, "Richter 1992".
"Abstraktes Bilds" ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Day After
By Michael (Corinne) West
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Day After" is an abstract Post War oil on canvas painting by Michael (Corinne) West in 1963. The artwork is 85 1/4 x 50 1/8 inches and is 86 7/8 x 51 5/8 x 2 inches with the fra...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Comida
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"La Comida" is an abstract figurative Impressionist oil on canvas painting by María Blanchard. The artwork is 21 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches and is 24 3/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 inches with the frame,...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fillette à la pomme
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Fillette à la pomme" is an Impressionist portrait oil on canvas painting by María Blanchard. The artwork is 28 1/4 x 23 5/8 inches and is 32 1/2 x 28 x 2 inches with the frame, weig...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rouge Mouille (A00963)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Rouge Mouille (A00963)" is an abstract Post War gouache and ink on paper work by Alexander Calder in 1965. The artwork is 42 1/4 x 29 5/8 inches and is 49 1/4 x 35 1/2 x 1 7/8 inche...
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)
By Richard Prince
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Censor Painting Pink)" is a nude figurative acrylic on inkjet board painting by Richard Prince in 2009. The artwork is 35 1/2 x 30 inches and 37 1/2 x 32 x 1 1/2 inches wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Inkjet, Acrylic
Outside: Evening 12 (diptych)
By Andrew Taylor
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Outside: Evening 12 (diptych)" is an abstract Contemporary oil on canvas painting by Andrew Taylor in 2008. The artwork is 48 x 48 inches, weighing less than 50 lbs. It is signed, t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Petals, Blue Moon
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Red and Black Spiral" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks and blues by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is signed lower right, "Calder 72...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Colonial Organisms
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Colonial Organisms" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, yellow...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Trees in Brittany
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Abel George Warshawsky. "Trees in Brittany" is an impressionist landscape, oil on canvas in a palette of greens by Abel George Warshawsky. The a...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tracks
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Tracks" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, and yellows by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
The Forest
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "The Forest" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, yellows, and blues by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is signed lower right, "Calder 72...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Directions
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Directions" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, yellows, and oranges by artist Alexander Calder...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Waterfall
By Hiroshi Senju
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Waterfall" is an abstract landscape natural pigments and platinum on Japanese mulberry paper mounted on board painting by Hiroshi Senju in 2021. The artwork is 36 x 46 inches and 36...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Platinum
How Come
By Irving Norman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"How Come" is a Modern surrealist oil on canvas painting by Irving Norman in 1968. The artwork is 90 x 60 inches and 91 1/4 x 61 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches with the fram, weighing less than ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snapshots
By Irving Norman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Snapshots" is a modern surrealist oil on canvas painting by Irving Norman in 1986. The artwork is 40 x 90 inches and 41 3/8 x 91 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches with the frame, weighing less than 50 lbs. It is signed and dated lower right, "I.N. '68".
Norman's surrealist paintings transport viewers into dystopian realms where human figures meld with machinery, creating haunting landscapes of industrialized chaos and existential reflection. This painting uses a series of vignettes or "snapshots" of human couples in various states of health and vigor. The grotesque nature of some of the bodies is juxtaposed in the bright swimsuits as children play under an ominous sky...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man and Time
By Irving Norman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Man and Time" is an American surrealist oil on canvas painting by Irving Norman in 1986. The artwork is 58 x 30 inches and 59 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches with the frame, weighing le...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zigzag Sun and Crags
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Zigzag Sun and Crags" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, and blues by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is signed lower right, "Calder 72...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
The Oval Spiral
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "The Oval Spiral" is a Post-War, geometric abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds and blacks by artist Alexander Calder. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Untitled (Rope Dancer series)
By Jack Roth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Rope Dancer series)" is an acrylic on canvas made by Jack Roth in 1980. The artwork is 18 x 30 1/8 inches. It weighs less thn 50 lbs. The work is signed and dated in penci...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sky Blue Sky
By Merion Estes
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Sky Blue Sky" is a fabric collage and acrylic paint on panel work made by Merion Estes in 2000. The artwork is 80 x 60 x 1 3/4 inches. It weighs less than 50 lbs. The work is signed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
Phenomena Procession Falls
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Phenomena Procession Falls" is a watercolor on paper work by Paul Jenkins, made in 1975. The artwork size is 41 3/4 x 30 inches. The framed size is 47 1/8 x 35 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches. T...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sticky Wicket
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Sticky Wicket" is an acrylic, modeling paste and sticks on plywood piece made by Charles Arnoldi in 1989. The artwork size is 44 1/4 x 91 x 3 inches. The artwork weight is 100 pound...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Acrylic
Untitled H/S E
By Conrad Marca-Relli 1
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled H/S E" is a collage on canvas made by Conrad Marca-Relli in 1971. The artwork size is 26 1/4 x 20 inches. The framed size is 30 x 23 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches. The work is signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled
By David Smith
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a painting by American artist David Smith.
David Smith’s paintings from the 1930s rarely come to market, and when Untitled (Billiard Players) surfaced at a Christie’s auction in 2018, it created quite a stir, realizing an impressive price of $1.15 million. Painted around the same time, Untitled shares many similarities with Untitled (Billiard Players). Both paintings affirm Smith’s place among the American artists when ideas and style began to intermingle and coalesce around Picasso’s innovations.
Uniquely positioned in temperament and ability, Smith was a man of considerable ambition whose direct-metal configurations would have much to do with achieving new ideas about abstraction. Yet all along, he insisted he was a painter, not a sculptor who painted.
Paintings by Smith...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By David Smith
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a painting by artist David Smith. The work is signed and dated in the upper left "David Smith (symbol) 1936".
When David Smith set up a workshop on the Brooklyn Navy Pier in 1933 to learn direct-metal techniques, he shared the space not with artists, but with professional welders. Yet as he stated in 1964, ‘…all my early friends were painters…I never conceived of myself as anything other than a painter because my work came straight through the raised surface.’
Picasso and Cubism would be dominant influences in Smith’s work. He understood that Picasso imagined the world as a sculptor might, and not necessarily limited to the unavoidable impact of Cubism. In addition to pursuing a kind of rethinking of the world in three-dimensionality on his own terms, by the late 1920s, Picasso had shown interest in surrealism. That meant drawing not as a depiction of reality, but rather as a reconfiguration of the body in an assemblage of often precariously balanced, interconnected forms — some expressed in a three-dimensional form, others as drawings or paintings.
Those processes are reflected in this work by David Smith; three fanciful totemic assemblages set within a landscape perspective of ground, mountains, and sky and whose presence is surreal enough to cast shadows under a presumed solar presence. Untitled, 1936 embraces surrealism, yet also serves to demonstrate the extent to which his thought processes are inextricably linked to sculpture and related to scale, spatial orientation, and three-dimensionality. With that in mind, it is not surprising to know that Smith saw no demarcation between sculpture and painting, or that a painting such as Untitled (1936) can exist outside of planning or design for future three-dimensional work.
Provenance:
Estate of David Smith, New York
Hauser & Wirth
Private Collection
Exhibition:
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ‘David Smith: Skulptureen, Zeichnungen [David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings]’
Dusseldorf/DE, March 14 – April 27, 1986 (travelled to: Städtische Galerie im Stäelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt/DE, June 19 – September 28, 1986: Whitechapel Art Gallery...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Dream Within A Dream, (What Am I, A Mind Reader?)
By Ryan McGinness
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"A Dream Within A Dream, (What Am I, A Mind Reader?)," is an acrylic on canvas painting by Ryan McGinness, made in 2007. The artwork size is 96 1/4 x 143 x 2 3/4 inches. The painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is an oil on canvas painting made by Hans Hofmann in 1962. The artwork size is 25 x 30 1/4 inches. The framed size is 33 1/4 x 38 1/4 x 2 inches. The painting is signed lo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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