Property from an Important East Coast Collection
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William Baziotes
Circus Abstraction
- Estimate
- $100,000 - 150,000
Lot Details
oil on canvas
signed "Baziotes" lower right; further signed and titled "Circus Abstraction William Baziotes" on the reverse
32 x 24 in. (81.3 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1946, this work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the William Baziotes Estate.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"My whole intention in painting is to make a thing poetical; but not poetical in a literary sense. I want something that evokes mood, a background, a stage set for certain characters that are playing certain parts.” William Baziotes
Provenance
Exhibited