Lot 16
  • 16

Philip Perkins

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Philip Perkins
  • Forgotten Mastery
  • signed Perkins and dated '48 (lower right); also signed Philip Perkins, dated 1948 and titled Forgotten Mastery on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 by 29 7/8 inches
  • (91.4 by 75.9 cm)

Condition

This work is in good condition. The canvas is lined. Under UV: there are some dots and spots of inpainting, primarily in the background. There are 2 small dots of inpainting in the brown area in the lower left quadrant.
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Catalogue Note

Philip Perkins was born in Waverly, Tennessee. Following studies at Vanderbilt University (1925- 1926) and the Chicago Art Institute (1926-1931), he moved to Paris in 1932 where he studied with Jean Marchaud, Louis Marcoussis and Fernand Leger.  In 1934 he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon de Tuilleries in Paris.  He moved to New York in 1940 where he shared a studio with Yves Tanguy.  In 1947, the year prior to painting Forgotten Mastery, Perkins participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition at Galerie Maeght in Paris. The present work is a superb example of those for which he is best known–geometric, cubist influenced work of the forties.