
Property from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires Sold to Fund Future Acquisitions
Magical Space-Forms
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February 26, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Property from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires Sold to Fund Future Acquisitions
Lorser Feitelson
1898 - 1978
Magical Space-Forms
signed and dated 51 (lower right); signed four times, titled twice, dated 51 twice, dated 1951-56 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)
oil on wood panel
30 by 48 in.
76.2 by 121.9 cm.
Executed in 1951-56.
Stanley Barbee, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist in 1959)
Trigg Ison Fine Art, West Hollywood (acquired from the estate of the above in 2003)
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 2003)
Acquired from the above in 2012 by the present owner
Pasadena Art Institute, Lorser Feitelson: A Retrospective, March - April 1952
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Junior Art Council Exhibition, November 1955 - January 1956
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo; Rome, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea; Miami, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, A Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950, September 2012 - January 2015, p. 55, illustrated in color
Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965 -2015, October - March 2015, p. 134, illustrated in color, and pp. 36, 57 and 188
Jules Langsner, "Art News From Los Angeles," ARTnews, March 1952, p. 52
"Cultural Aspect," Los Angeles Examiner, 24 November 1955, illustrated
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