KURT SELIGMANN (1900-1962)

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KURT SELIGMANN (1900-1962)

Game of Chance No. 2

signed and dated bottom right K Seligmann 1949--oil on canvas
42 7/8 x 41 in. (108.9 x 104.1 cm.)

Painted in 1949
Exhibited
New York, Durlacher Bros., no. 49-4
New York, D'Arcy Galleries, Kurt Seligmann, 1961, no. 33

Lot Essay

When one isolates and analyzes the individual forms which comprise the costumes of the three figures in Game of Chance No. 2, they resemble the amplified organic shapes observable in Seligmann's Abstract-Créationist and early Surrealist period. Indeed, the ? of the artist's style throughout his career moves from relative simplicity to layered complexity, and then near the end of his life, back to simpler forms.