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'LE SIGNAL' AN ALUMINUM SCULPTURE, 1928
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LEON ARTHUR TUTUNDJIAN (1906-1968)
'Le Signal' An Aluminum Sculpture, 1928
42 in. (106.6 cm.) high
'Le Signal' An Aluminum Sculpture, 1928
42 in. (106.6 cm.) high
Sale room notice
Please note that the sculpture is marked "LE SIGNAL" with edition number 4 of 8 and signed L.H. Tutundjian 1928.
Armenian artist Leon Tutundjian was born in Amasia in the former Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). Tutundjian's youth was spent moving from city to city, in search of refuge from the violence around him. He was in Costantinople studying at the School of Fine Arts when was sent to an orphanage in Greece. He was then accepted into a school in Venice, and eventually settled in Paris, where he became an accomplished violinist and established himself as a respected painter. Tutundjian experimented with various styles throughout his artistic career, starting with Tachism, the spontaneous and expressive use of sweeping brushstrokes, stains, drips, blots and splashes of color. Tutundjian also helped to define a style known as Concrete Art, a non-figurative style that promoted the use of only planes and colors. He eventually moved to Surrealism, and became well known as an artist of that genre. Tutundjian never spoke openly of his painful childhood, but disorder and horror are apparent in his works. In his early works, he fought the chaos of his experience by transforming it with a balanced artistic vision into ordered and pure artworks. In his Surrealist pieces, viewers are reminded of the horrors of mass murder through the eerie imagery including enigmatic masks, disconnected hands and heads and desolate landscapes that dominate his works.
Courtesy of The Legacy Project's Visual Arts Library.
Armenian artist Leon Tutundjian was born in Amasia in the former Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). Tutundjian's youth was spent moving from city to city, in search of refuge from the violence around him. He was in Costantinople studying at the School of Fine Arts when was sent to an orphanage in Greece. He was then accepted into a school in Venice, and eventually settled in Paris, where he became an accomplished violinist and established himself as a respected painter. Tutundjian experimented with various styles throughout his artistic career, starting with Tachism, the spontaneous and expressive use of sweeping brushstrokes, stains, drips, blots and splashes of color. Tutundjian also helped to define a style known as Concrete Art, a non-figurative style that promoted the use of only planes and colors. He eventually moved to Surrealism, and became well known as an artist of that genre. Tutundjian never spoke openly of his painful childhood, but disorder and horror are apparent in his works. In his early works, he fought the chaos of his experience by transforming it with a balanced artistic vision into ordered and pure artworks. In his Surrealist pieces, viewers are reminded of the horrors of mass murder through the eerie imagery including enigmatic masks, disconnected hands and heads and desolate landscapes that dominate his works.
Courtesy of The Legacy Project's Visual Arts Library.