Title: Pixie

Medium: Watercolor

Date Of Execution: 1935

Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 9 7/8"; Frame: 21-1/4 x 17-3/8 x 1/2"

Signature: Signed and dated in ink lower right

Provenance:

Estate of the artist

References And Exhibitions:

“Robert Jay Wolff (1905–1978) was an early pioneer of the American abstract art. His paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim.

From 1936 on Wolff expressed himself in abstract painting: "Spaces of magic light and vivid color, emptied of fixed points of reference, of self-enclosed objects and locally isolated things, color spaces containing only the heavy black lines of brush strokes that defined their limits; this was what emerged....with a kind of furious aimlessness. I was not sure what it was that was happening, but I knew that what ever it was it was vividly alive. This was the here and now of my life. I had taken the long, final step out of the shelter of art history and I found that I was quite alone." Wolff became a member of Abstract American Artists in 1937 and exhibited with the group.

Wolff joined with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes in 1938 when they established the Chicago Institute of Design, the American revival of the German Bauhaus school. After World War II Wolff was professor of Art at Brooklyn College, where as department chairman his faculty included Ad Reinhardt, Burgoyne Diller, Stanley Hayter, Carl Holty and Mark Rothko. Wolff's book Essays on Art and Learning, was published in 1971.

Wolff's work is represented in collections including: Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, estate of Alexander Calder, estate of Marcel Breuer, The Guggenheim, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Tate in London, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum.”

Courtesy of Wikipedia

 

Condition Notes:

Excellent fresh color and conditionExcellent fresh color and condition

Price: (US) $2,500.00

Inventory Number: FA2135