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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979)
Untitled
.
Oil on masonite board, 1947. 450x375 mm; 17
3
/
4
x14
3
/
4
inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, NewYork; private collection, NewYork.
This beautiful oil reveals the range of Norman Lewis’ early experimentation within the abstract
idiom in the late 1940s. In 1947, Norman Lewis did a series of these small abstract paintings on
board.Two other paintings from this series -
Florence
and
Shapes
- were included in the exhibition
From the Margins: Lee Krasner|Norman Lewis, 1945 - 1952
at the Jewish Museum.All three paintings
on masonite have a central composition with a variety of mark-making surrounded by a halo of
monochromatic color. The previous year Norman Lewis had joined the Willard Gallery which
would represent him for the next eighteen years. Kleeblatt/Brown pp. 42-43.
[60,000/90,000]