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Cavallon holding GC 53 alongside artists Clyfford Still, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski and Harry Bertoia
Cavallon holding GC 53 alongside artists Clyfford Still, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski and Harry Bertoia
Giorgio Cavallon Italian-American, 1904-1989
GC 53, 1962-63
Oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.
56.5 x 46.4 cm.
56.5 x 46.4 cm.
Signed and dated "Giorgio Cavallon 62-63" lower right, signed, titled and dated again "Giorgio Cavallon 1962-63 GC 53" verso
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Twentieth-century American art critic and poet Frank O'Hara described Cavallon's process: “Colors move slowly, from the palette table to the canvas; the range of hues is at first bright, and...
Twentieth-century American art critic and poet Frank O'Hara described Cavallon's process: “Colors move slowly, from the palette table to the canvas; the range of hues is at first bright, and a “drawing-in-paint emphasis” is retained. As the painting progresses, hues increase in intensity; there is a panorama of juxtaposed masses with a strong dramatic center of black. Then whites are added, the whole canvas becoming illuminated from within” (O'Hara, Art chronicles, 1954-1966, 103).
Related artworks
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Giorgio Cavallon, Untitled #139, 1948
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Giorgio Cavallon, Abstraction with Red, Green and Orange, 1950
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Giorgio Cavallon, Woman Sitting, 1938
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