Modern & Post-War Art

Swann Auction Galleries Sale #2740: Swann Galleries’ Spring offering of Modern & Post-War Art will feature a selection of works from the era’s best genres include Abstract Expressionism, Hard-Edge Abstraction, and Color Field painting.

Felrath Hines’ "Brown Landscape; Autumn Eve," oil on canvas, circa 1950, is on offer. The 1950s for Hines was largely devoted to painting landscapes, here he deemphasized the use of line and forms are amorphous leaving the viewer open to interpretation.

Detroit artist, Al Loving’s earliest artistic breakthrough came in a series of hard-edge abstractions, many with a support of canvas stretched over shaped stretchers. "Septehedron L-B-4," acrylic on canvas, 1970, features a six-sided stretcher with the face of the canvas depicting four of the seven sides of the polyhedron with three sides suggested by overlapping line and form.

Several artists in the Washington D.C. area pioneered the Color Field technique, establishing the Washington Color School. Featured in the sale is Mehring’s "Untitled, (# 1)," magna on unprimed canvas, 1963. Here Mehring uses washes of color patterns in pointillist patterning divided into equal proportion on a square support. In this design he removes suggestion of a horizon line or asymmetry allowing the colors to interact without cues to suggest representational forms.

Exhibition Hours
Sat, May 9th 12pm - 5pm
Mon, May 11th 12pm - 5pm
Tue, May 12th 12pm - 5pm
Wed, May 13th 12pm - 5pm