Black Edge II

細節

Frank Lobdell (b. 1921)
Black Edge II
signed, titled and dated 'Lobdell BLACK EDGE II 3 March 1962' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
85 x 70 in. (215.9 x 177.8 cm.)
Painted in 1962.

來源

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

展覽

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The San Francisco Collector, September-October 1965, no. 34. Pasadena Art Museum, Frank Lobdell, March-April 1966, no. 52 (illustrated in color). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945-1962, August-September 1968. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Frank Lobdell: Paintings and Monotypes, January-March 1983. Oakland Museum of California, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, June-August 1985.

拍品專文

A contemporary of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still through mutual studies at the California School of Fine Art, Frank Lobdell brought a West Coast sensibility to Abstract Expressionism. Lobdell has been a key figure in the Bay Area art scene for over fifty years with a long, diverse career that explored both abstraction and figurative art. Black Edges (1962) demonstrates a transitional time in Lobdell's oeuvre from purely gestural abstraction. The large amoeba-shaped form with cellular internal structures is painted with a thick impasto and shares a strong affinity with certain aspects of Surrealism, specifically as demonstrated by Picasso, Miró, and Klee with its abstract yet anthropomorphic shapes.