Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer ART FOR SALE

1912 New Orleans, Louisiana - 1997 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Abstract painting and sculpture.

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Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer became one of the most prominent abstract artists in the South and started her career late, turning to art in her late thirties in search of a deeper meaning and purpose in life. She moved from an early figurative style in paintings of children to Abstract-Expressionism, influenced by a summer's study in Provincetown, Massachusetts with Hans Hofmann. Kohlmeyer's life before art was relatively conventional, though her native creative instincts are clear in her feeling for literature. She was born in 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana, gaining her B.A. degree in English literature in 1933 from Newcomb College. She then married a businessman and had two children. Her artistic evolution began when she took local art... Read full biography

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Lot 477 - Louisiana Purchase Auction November 20

Type:Painting

Size:60.50" x 64.50"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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Lot 477 - Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer, "Circus Series #6", oil, charcoal and collage on canvas, 1978, signed and dated lower right, handwritten label with title and date on stretcher, framed. Estimate: $25,000-35,000