Vintage Midcentury Modern Abstract Painting, Framed, Signed Jacob Semiatin, 1959

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Beautiful abstract work done in what appears to be primarily watercolors, possible with gouache, combined with wax crayon or oil … Read more Beautiful abstract work done in what appears to be primarily watercolors, possible with gouache, combined with wax crayon or oil pastel, on paper. Signed Jacob Semiatin, 1959 to lower left. The work is in very good condition. Behind plexiglass. Wood dark brown frame is 1.25" deep and in good condition with chips to upper left corner that have been touched up. Please see photos.

Measuring: 21" by 26" inches overall. Sight 17" by 22".


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Jacob Moses Semiatin (1915–2003) was an American landscape and abstract expressionist painter. His works from the 1930s and 1940s were watercolors of countryside and industrial settings; his later works were abstract. He painted with acrylics and oils. His work and home life centered around New York City...

In the late 1950s, Semiatin immersed himself in the art movement of abstract expressionism.[2]: 12  His paintings became completely abstract. Semiatin's one-man show of abstract watercolors at Galerie Internationale was reviewed by Stuart Preston of The New York Times in 1962, who wrote: "Liveliness is all, but a word must be said both for ingratiating color and a knowing way with the medium."[17] According to his obituary in The New York Times, "his works hang in museums and private collections around the world."[18] For instance, the watercolor Street Scene in Blytheville (1942) is among the collection of the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas.[19][13] See less