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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Green and Black Abstraction
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Watercolor and ink on cream wove paper, 1951. 485x610 mm; 19
1
/
8
x24 inches. Signed and dated
“5-51” in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; collection of Oral Lovell,Wellesley, MA; thence by
descent to the current owner.
By the late 1940s, Norman Lewis’s work grew increasingly more abstract, departing from his early
work in the 1930s and 1940s that recorded everyday scenes and figures in his native Harlem,
sometimes in Cubist fashion, to his more complexly abstracted and atmospheric work of the 1950s.
This abstraction typifies his early forays into the figure/ground relationship.
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