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Monumental Modernist Mixed Metal Kinetic Floor Sculpture by Irving Lehman

$6,200
£4,706.93
€5,383.73
CA$8,662.30
A$9,634.37
CHF 5,030.77
MX$117,240
NOK 64,250.58
SEK 60,255.70
DKK 40,180.83
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Titled Galaxy 79, which I believe to be the year? Amazing mixed metal sculpture, consisting of copper, brass, aluminum steel and wood. Aluminum frame consisting of five moving abstract sculptures, retains original label, Irving Lehman (1900-1983) was an American Jewish painter, sculptor, engraver and designer. Born in Kiev in then Russia, Lehman studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union and the National Academy of Art and spent much of his working life in New York City. Part of the Abstract Expressionist school, he worked in oil and watercolor as a painter and in metal and steel as a sculptor; his works have been shown in galleries in England, France, Italy, Israel and Japan, and were included in an international traveling exhibition in Europe in 1951. Like many other artists of his generation, he painted for the WPA and then adopted a more abstract style after WWII. Lehman spent much of his career in NYC. He had his first exhibition at ACA Gallery in 1934. He also exhibited at the Whitney, National Academy, PAFA, Brooklyn Museum, Chicago Art Institute, and others. This work contains Constructivist elements anticipating the more gestural abstraction of the post-WWII New York Abstract Expressionist School. Hand delivery avail to New York City or anywhere en route from Buffalo NY.

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