1940s Geometric Composition Gouache on Paper Signed Rolph Scarlett

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In this original artwork, the artist transforms circles, shapes, and lines within an idea of two- and three-dimensional space, balancing … Read more In this original artwork, the artist transforms circles, shapes, and lines within an idea of two- and three-dimensional space, balancing a sense of rhythm and precisely layered details with the geometric shapes in an edgy harmony. This painting is matted and framed with a clean black rail, and ready to hang. Without the frame, the gouache measures 13 x 14.5 inches

Geometric Composition
Goache on paper, framed
Signed SCARLETT lower right

Rolph Scarlett was born in 1889 in Canada and made his home in New York City by 1924. He died in Woodstock, New York, in 1984. He was a great explorer of twentieth-century abstract painting during his 75-year career. Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist of the eras in which he lived. Exposed to the work of Paul Klee through a chance meeting in Europe with the artist himself, Scarlett took up abstraction with a fervor that never diminished. He also became acquainted with the artist and curator Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, later renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952: it has several Scarlett's in its collection. Scarlett became acquainted with the nonobjective works of Rudolf Bauer and Vasily Kandinsky and further refined his abstract style and avoided any reference to the outside world. He believed that nonobjective painting was an act, in his words, of “pure creation.” See less