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Lot 312

Werner Drewes "Avignon Island" Oil on Canvas

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Starting Bid
$1,000

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Signed in the lower left by the artist. 

 

Image: 33" Wide x 28" Tall

Frame: 34 1/4" Wide x 29 1/4" Tall 

 

Condition: Areas of loss of paint, concentrated primarily in the sky area. Scratches to the frame. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Werner Drewes (1899-1985) belongs to the small group of artists who carried the Bauhaus to America. Born in Canig, Germany, he studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 under Johannes Itten, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, and later at Dessau under Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. He emigrated to the United States in 1930 and in 1936 helped found American Abstract Artists, the group that kept geometric and nonobjective painting alive in New York in the years when Regionalism dominated American art.

Drewes taught for decades, at Columbia, Brooklyn College and the Institute of Design in Chicago, and longest at Washington University in St. Louis, from 1946 to 1965. He is best known as the artist who did as much as anyone to establish the abstract woodcut in America, and in paint for a thin, translucent surface that lets the underlayers read through. His canvases move between pure abstraction and landscape distilled from observation. "Avignon Island" belongs to that second strand, a place translated into the Bauhaus language of color and plane.

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