Live Auction 22585Modern American Masterworks from the Ted Shen Collection
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ (1878-1965)
Lot 25 Modern American Masterworks from the Ted Shen Collection

ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ (1878-1965)

City Abstraction

Closed21 April 2023

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ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ (1878-1965)
City Abstraction
signed with initials 'A.W.' (lower center)
watercolor and pencil on paper
19 x 12 1/4 in. (48.3 x 31.1 cm.)
Executed in 1912.

The artist.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New Hampshire, acquired from the above.
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Private collection, New Mexico and Texas, acquired from the above.
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2008.

Specialist note

Born in Russia, Abraham Walkowitz met Alfred Stieglitz in 1912 and exhibited in his first show at Stieglitz's gallery 291 that December. As epitomized by the present work executed during that seminal year, "Walkowitz's view of the city is a modernist's. He sees in it the opening for abstraction, in the grid of buildings, flat patterning of façades, and distortions of continuous space. At the same time, he conveys the intense energy of the metropolis as though the city itself were personified." (G.S. Bernstein, The Teresa Jackson Weill Collection of Art, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1980, p. 50)