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A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Lorser Feitelson

Untitled (Magical Space Forms)

Session begins in

November 21, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Bid

14,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Lorser Feitelson

1898 - 1978


Untitled (Magical Space Forms)

signed twice (on the reverse)

oil on fiberboard mounted on board

30 by 40 in.

76.2 by 101.6 cm.

Executed in 1948.

The artist

The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1978)

Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood (acquired from the above in 2000)

Acquired from the above in November 2004 by the present owner

Richard Cándida Smith, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry and Politics in California, Berkeley, 1995, no. 3, p. 22, illustrated in color

Holly Myers, "A style still shaping our world," Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2003, illustrated in color

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "Pacific Standard Time Crosscurrents at the Getty," Artnet, 4 October 2011, illustrated in color (online)

Tom Armstrong, A Singular Vision, Architecture, Art, Landscape, New York, 2011, pp. 196-197 (text) and pp. 199 and 246, illustrated in color

Diane Moran, Lorser Feitelson: Eternal Recurrence, West Hollywood, 2014, pl. 91, p. 115, illustrated in color

Jenni Sorkin, Art in California (World of Art), London, 2021, no. 56, pp. 80-81, illustrated in color

Los Angeles, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Four Abstract Classicists Plus One, January - February 2000, illustrated in color

West Hollywood, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting, 1945 -1965, May - July 2003, no. 4

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum and Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970, October 2011 - June 2012