Artwork Details
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Dimensions
28 x 15 in. (canvas) 28-3/4 x 15-5/8 x 1-1/2 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed, l.r.: Ilya Bolotowsky. Inscribed in Onya LaTour's hand, verso, top stretcher bar: Collection / Onya La Tour / 1956 Inscribed, verso, top stretcher bar: Black Abstraction price $200.00 / by Ilya Bolotowsky
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Gift of Onya La Tour
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Provenance
The artist; Onya la Tour; 1950; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1972
Gallery Labels
- The color cited in this painting’s title, Black Abstraction, is actually used sparingly. Bolotowsky selects several shades of the color wheel from blue to red, balancing them with more neutral bands of gray and black.
- In 1933 Russian émigré Bolotowsky was introduced to the work of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. The broad palette of Black Abstraction demonstrates a variation of Mondrian’s Neoplasticism, a style that avoids any reference to nature or illusionistic space and is characterized by primary colors (blue, red, and yellow) situated within a grid of black lines.
- Bolotowsky’s method did not include preparatory sketches. The artist changed shapes and colors directly on the canvas.
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