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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled
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Oil on heavy linen canvas, 1953. 991x1194 mm; 39x47 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: Adrienne E.Wheeler, NewYork; private NewYork collection.
This beautiful painting is a very fine example of Norman Lewis’s evolving Abstract Expressionist
idiom in the early 1950s. This intriguing transitional work comes from a short period when the
artist used a heavier oil paint application and an editing layer of white paint from 1953 to 1954.
This paint has an organic, tactile quality as the skeins of paint accumulate across the heavy linen
