SOLD Untitled (1952)

Oil on canvas 38 x 36 inches Signed and dated lower left . Paul Burlin exhibited in the Armory Show of 1913, and was also one of the first artists to make the journey to Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was “entranced by the metaphysical propitiation of the forces of nature.” In the 1920’s the artist shared a studio with Albert Gleizes in Paris. By the mid-1940’s Burlin’s work had become increasingly abstract, inspired partially by Kandinsky’s improvisations and Matisse’s liberated color. This interest in communicating with surfaces and color eventually led to the abstracts, such as Untitled, in which all literal imagery disappeared. A closely related oil from this period titled The Magnificence, which was owned by Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery, is reproduced in American Painting Today, Nathaniel Pousette-Dart’s important reference book about contemporary art at this time