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 were 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 a great variety of texture and has the advantage of not yellowing, of weathering well, and of being unaffected by moisture. The final surface may be polished with a soft cloth to create a luminous sheen.

$7500.

Untitled (Geometric Abstraction with Bronze Background)- - 1940, Encaustic.

Signed and dated, lower left.

Image size 10 x 8 inches (254 x 203 mm).

A fine, modernist abstraction, with fresh colors, buff wove paper; the image extending to the sheet edges. An invisibly reaired tear (1/2 inch) in the bottom sheet edge, a reinforced crease in the top right sheet corner (3/4 inch) otherwise in excellent condition. The bronze colored background and muted palette lend the work a sense of ascending space and mysterious, mystical energy.

SOLD

Untitled (Beach Forms)- - 1950, Lithograph.

Edition not stated. Signed and dated in the stone, lower right. Inscribed To Eleanor, from E.J.B. with fond good wishes in pencil.

Image size 7 15/16 x 8 11/16 inches (202 x 221 mm); sheet size 13 1/8 x 17 1/4 inches (333 x 438 mm).

A fine impression, with full margins (2 1/4 to 4 1/4 inches) on buff wove paper, in excellent condition.

Printed by Lynton Kistler, with his blind stamp in the lower left margin.

SOLD