Genève Enchères · Lot 93
White scribe
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
White scribe
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2018-09-18
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 500–800
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Wolf Kahn
Documented citizenships : United States
Wolf Kahn (1927–2020), born in Stuttgart, left Germany as a child, reached England and joined his family in New York in 1940. After studying with Stuart Davis and Hans Hofmann, becoming the latter’s assistant, he helped establish the Hansa Gallery. This artists’ cooperative presented his first solo exhibition in 1953.
His paintings and pastels sustain a dialogue between recognisable landscape and abstract arrangements of colour. Light can consolidate forms or appear to dissolve them, while atmospheric effects transform observed places. With the painter Emily Mason, whom he married in 1957, he purchased a Vermont farm in 1968. Summers there supported a practice divided between studies made on site and further work in his New York studio.
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Lempertz · Genève Enchères
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Works recorded at auction
Lempertz · Lot 756
Maine Waters
Pastel
Original catalogue wording
Maine Waters
pastel
Auction date : 2017-12-02
Published result : 4216 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2000
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Lempertz · Lot 757
In Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
In Massachusetts
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2017-12-02
Published result : 16120 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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