Description

About the artwork: This small Abstract Expressionist painting has the presence and weight of a large-scale Abstract Expressionist canvas poured into a sensuous and more intimate scale. It reminds the viewer that small-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings can have the mystery and impact of the iconic large-scale paintings produced by Harry Nadler’s well-known contemporaries, Robert Motherwell, Norman Bluhm, Franz Kline, and others.

This is a fine work, produced by a skilled artist whose hand traces the shifting, tenuous relationship between forms and whorls of paint, between icy blackness, transparency, and silvery pen strokes. The artwork is signed with the artist’s monogram on the back and fully matted and framed in a slivered carved wooden frame ready to hang. Painting dimensions without frame = 9 ¾ inches x 12 inches.

Encounters #1
Signed with HN monogram on back

Note bene: We are offering another artwork in this series, Encounters #2.

About the Artist: Harry Nadler (1930-1990) was born in Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA in 1958, and moved to New York City after traveling in Spain. He worked at the Brooklyn Museum and New York University before joining the faculty of two other universities. In New York City, he participated in many exhibitions and had one-man shows at many galleries, such as Dorsky Gallery, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Gruenbaum Gallery, and the Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, Long Island. His work is included in many museum collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, Pennsylvania Academy, Fine Arts Museum of Santa Fe, Detroit Museum of Art. Nadler worked in many different media, using color and structure in a sensuous way. His work was abstract for the most part and contemplative in feeling. He used geometry, including the Golden Mean in his later work, to make the bones for his color-space, using sumptuous materials to create a time space. (Source: AskArt biographical details provided by his widow.)

Provenance:
Private collection – New York
Private collection – Paris
Auction – Paris Drouot

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Dimensions

26ʺW × 3ʺD × 21ʺH

Styles

Abstract

American

Organic Modern

Art Subjects

Abstract

Frame Type

Framed

Period

1960s

Country of Origin

United States

Item Type

Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned

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Materials

Crayon

Graphite

Mixed-Media

Paint

Paper

Pen and Ink

Condition

Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections

Color

Gray

Condition Notes

This painting and its period-appropriate frame are in very good, ready to hang condition.This painting and its period-appropriate frame are in very good, ready to hang condition.