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A silkscreen by late Baltic German painter Ida Kerkovius (1879-1970). Abstract forms of white, orange, and yellow dance on a field of white in a prime example of postwar abstraction. Numbered 76/300 and signed by the artist in the lower right corner.
About the Artist:
Ida Kerkovius (1879-1970) was born in 1879 in Riga, began to study art seriously in her early 20’s, eventually studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar. There, she became a contemporary of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky while learning the craft of weaving, which she worked in between WWI and WII. Kerkovius was included on the list of degenerate artists by the Nazi regime in 1933 and much of her work prior to WWII was destroyed when her studio in Stuttgart was bombed. After the war, she led a very prolific and successful career before dying in 1970.
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Good condition.
13.75″W x 13″H
An original signed and numbered lithograph by famed French artist André Masson (1896-1987) reminiscent of Masson’s works in automatic drawing. Featuring graphic marks on a vivid ground of red, blue, yellow, and green, Masson’s surrealistic mark-making invites viewers to investigate the image and form their own meaning within the piece. Framed in silver and signed and numbered at the bottom.
About the Artist: André Masson(1896-1987) was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise and began to study art at the age of 11 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, later moving his studies to Paris. Masson’s early work displayed an interest in Cubism, but he later became more closely associated with Surrealism, becoming more of the more enthusiastic advocates of automatic drawing; a practice in which the hand is allowed to move randomly across the paper or canvas. Under the German occupation of France, Masson was labeled a degenerate artist by the Nazi regime and he later moved away from Surrealism, adopting a more structured style with themes of eroticism and violence. After escaping France to America, Masson’s work became an important influence on burgeoning Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, as he worked in Connecticut. Following the war, he returned to France and continued to paint until his death in 1987 at the age of 91.
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