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Property from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires Sold to Fund Future Acquisitions

Lorser Feitelson

Magical Space-Forms

Auction Closed

February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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