Entering the Path of the Heavenly Bodies

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WERNER DREWES (1899-1985)
Entering the Path of the Heavenly Bodies
signed 'Drewes' (lower right)—dated '45' with artist's device (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1945.

Provenance

Associated American Artists, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1993.

Exhibited

New York, Snyder Fine Art; San Francisco, California, Harcourts Modern and Contemporary Art, Modern American Painting: 1925-1950, September 12-December 7, 1991, pp. 12-13, pl. 5, illustrated.
New York, Associated American Artists, Modern Masters: Paintings and Works on Paper, September 9-October 16, 1993, n.p., no. 24, frontispiece illustration.

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Lot Essay

"In Entering the Path of the Heavenly Bodies, Drewes explores the interrelationships of form and color through the overlapping of a variety of crescent and rectangular shapes. By making these shapes translucent, Drewes spawns a multitude of new geometric forms...The use of the moon shape and floating forms are reminiscent of Kandinsky, and probably account for the painting's celestial title." (G. Snyder, K. Eagles-Smith, Modern American Painting: 1925-1950, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1991, p. 12)

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