1969 Natvar Bhavsar Color Field Abstract Screenprint - Listed Indian Artist

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This is just a great original piece. Whenever I have seen works by natvar bhavsar over the last 20 years … Read more This is just a great original piece. Whenever I have seen works by natvar bhavsar over the last 20 years I have bought them. I believe this is my 3rd or 4th print, and I would say this is probably my favorite. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biograph below. This is really a wonderful color field screenprint from early in the artist's career. Image measures 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches on sheet measuring 26 x 26 inches. Signed, dated (69), and numbered from an edition of 20 in pencil below the image. Image is in outstanding as printed condition (excuse the glare on the glass). The margins show some obvious matte burn from this original non archival matte. Original silver frame is complimentary and ready to hang. On the back of the frame is the original stamp from marlborough graphics gallery in new york city. Frame measures 27 1/4 x 27 1/4 inches.

For those not familiar with the artist his biography from askart reads: "Natvar Bhavsar was born in 1934 in Gothava in the state of Gujarat in India. In 1958 Bhavsar earned a master's degree in art at the CN School of Art in Ahmedabad, India. In 1959 he was awarded a government diploma in art and in 1960 he earned a BA in English literature from Gujarat University. In 1962 he enrolled for one semester at the Philadelphia College of Art; he then enrolled in the Tyler School of Art also in Philadelphia. He attended the graduate school of art at the University of Pennsylvania. Although Bhavsar first developed skills as a realist painter, by the time he was in Philadelphia he had become an abstract painter. He was influenced by Robert Motherwell, David Smith and Barnett Newman whom he met as a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Bhavsar was also strongly motivated to abandon his past techniques and embrace American abstract painting when he viewed an exhibit by Clyfford Still.

In 1965 the painter earned a MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and was then awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship. Bhavsar moved to New York and began teaching at the University of Rhode Island. In 1968 he moved to the Soho district in New York. Within a few years he was exhibiting at solo and group shows in New York. Although influenced by the color field movement and paint pouring methods of Frankenthaler and Morris Louis as well as the art of Pollock, Bhavsar invented a process all his own. Bhavsar soaks canvas with clear liquid binder and then sifts a layer of powdery pigment onto the canvas repeating the process as necessary." See less