Lorser Feitelson - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Condition Report

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    The Artist
    The Feitelson / Lundeberg Art Foundation
    Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
    Jack and Sandra Terner, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on January 21, 1994)
    Thence by descent to the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Los Angeles Art Association, Portable Murals, May 4–30, 1951
    Pasadena Art Institute, Lorser Feitelson, A Retrospective, March 21–April 27, 1952, no. 36
    Claremont, Scripps College Art Galleries, Paintings by Lorser Feitelson, March 1958, no. 1
    Los Angeles, Paul Rivas Gallery, Anna Mahler/Lorser Feitelson, June 8–July 3, 1959, no. 2
    Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Lorser Feitelson, A Retrospective Exhibition, August 16–September 17, 1972, no. 26, n.p.
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg: Retrospective Exhibition, October 2, 1980–May 3, 1981, no. 38, pp. 18, 68
    Los Angeles Art Association Galleries and Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Lundeberg and Feitelson Together Again, February 13–March 13, 1993, no. 5

  • Literature

    Jennifer Lee, "Six Artists Introduce Portable Murals as Contribution to Modern Living," Pasadena Star-News, May 1951 (illustrated)
    Jarvis Barlow, "Art Matters," Pasadena Independent, May 27, 1951
    Diane Moran, "On Lorser Feitelson," Art International 20, no. 5, October–November 1977, pp. 36–37 (illustrated, p. 36)
    Diane Moran, The Painting of Lorser Feitelson, University of Virginia, 1979, fig. 87, pp. 199, 338 (illustrated, p. 338)
    Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting, 1945–1965, exh. cat., Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 2005, p. 90
    Lorser Feitelson: The Kinetic Series, Works from 1916–1923, exh. cat., Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 2005, p. 90
    Diane Moran, Lorser Feitelson: Eternal Recurrence, Los Angeles, 2014, fig. 36, p. 116 (Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1952 installation view illustrated)

Property from the Terner Family Collection, Los Angeles

195

Magical Space Forms

signed and dated "Feitelson '51" lower right; signed, titled, inscribed and dated "LORSER FEITELSON 1951 (LARGE) "MAGICAL SPACE - FORMS" Lorser Feitelson" on the reverse
oil on canvas
68 1/4 x 101 1/2 in. (173.4 x 257.8 cm)
Painted in 1951.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024