“The artist is now truly the maker of a new world, the picture, and he makes it in the image of things he thinks and feels about the world and about himself, not as an imitation of nature.” – Sidney Janis, Abstract and Surrealist Art In America, 1944
Frederick Holmes & Company is proud to present an important selling exhibition of work by sixteen 20th century avant-garde artists, who critically contributed to the canon of American and European Modern. Drawing from several of the gallery’s long-established sources, and art-historic estates, this museum-calibre show filling both floors of the entire gallery, features works by some of the most influential figures of the 20th century, encompassing movements including non-objective, surrealism, cubism, futurism, expressionism, and post-war.
As the decades increasingly distance us from this profoundly seminal period in art, the various works by these and other important figures become rarer and more valued by collectors; as well as the contemporary artists who today stand upon the shoulders of their antecedents. Their influence, from the early years of the 20th century to the 21st century today, can’t be underestimated; nor can the availability of these historic works be taken for granted.
Included are seldom seen early figurative, futurism, and non objective works on paper, dating from 1910-1925 by German non-objective artist, Rudolf Bauer, the founding artist of Solomon Guggenheim’s Museum of Non Objective Painting in New York; Several gouaches & paintings by Rolph Scarlett, another Guggenheim founding painter; Works on paper by German-born, Jimmy Ernst – an artist who arguably more than anyone, bridged the European avant-garde and the New York School; and original etchings and Lithographs by Picasso, Calder, Dali, Matta, Miro, Tobey, Nevelson, Motherwell, and Others.
