Untitled (Geometric Abstraction), 1939, Encaustic.
Signed and dated, lower left. Estate stamped, verso.
Image size 12 3/8 x 9 inches (314 x 229 mm).
A fine, modernist abstraction, with fresh colors, on fibrous buff wove paper, the image extending to the sheet edges, in excellent condition.
Encaustic painting, also known as 'hot wax painting', dates back to ancient Greece. Traditionally, colored pigments were added to heated beeswax, the oldest known pigment binder, to create the paint medium. Since heat is not absolutely necessary for this medium, encaustic has come to mean any painting method in which pigment is mixed with beeswax. The encaustic medium, similar in appearance to oil painting, can be applied to any number of surfaces from paper to stone. It allows for great variety of texture and has the advantage of not yellowing, of weathering well, and of being unaffected by moisture.
$7500.
