Composition

Details

Rolph Scarlett (AMERICAN, 1889-1984)
Composition
signed 'Scarlett.' (lower left)
oil on board
76 x 56 cm.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Rolph Scarlett was a self-taught artist from a family of jewellers who settled in New York in 1918. Solomon Guggenheim purchased many of his 'non-objective' paintings as Scarlett preferred to describe them, explaining that the forms were not abstracted from anything. Scarlett was an avant-garde abstract painter, an innovative set designer and the creator of sculptural jewellery.

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