Reclining Figure
Type:Sculpture
Size:10.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Terracotta
Signed:Unavailable
Notes:
From the collection of artist family
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson ART FOR SALE
1899 Kiev, Russia - 1988 New York City. Known for: Cubist monchromatic wood assemblage.
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland,... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland, Maine where her father ran a lumber yard. In a town that was mostly Protestant, middle class, white people, she felt out of place as a Jew and an immigrant. In 1920, she moved to New York, studied at the Art Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller,... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland, Maine where her father ran a lumber yard. In a town that was mostly Protestant, middle class, white people, she felt out of place as a Jew and an immigrant. In 1920, she moved to New York, studied at the Art Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller, and married Charles Nevelson, whose "WASP" family she regarded as terribly stuffy. They had a son, and when he... Read full biography
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson - Art for Sale (2 available)
"Aquatint" 1973
Type:Other
Year:1973
Size:30.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Aquatint
Signed:Lower Right
Edition:52/90
Notes:
This is aquatint with some collage from important artist, Louise Nevelson, Frame size is 40 by 30 inches . It is hand signed by the artist and is edition 73/90. Beautiful framed under plexiglass . A retrospective exhibition of her works was recently at the Whitney Museum.