Dolan/Maxwell Shows Beauford Abstract at The Winter Show

The Winter Show, America’s premiere art, antiques, and design fair, brings together the world's leading fine and decorative arts dealers. The fair was founded by East Side House Settlement in 1954 to raise critical funds to support tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are most in need. 

East Side House is a community-based organization serving the Bronx and Northern Manhattan; its programs focus on education and technology as gateways out of poverty and as the keys to economic opportunity. All ticket sales proceeds from The Winter Show provide unrestricted funds for East Side House's life-changing programs.

Dolan/Maxwell Gallery is showing rare and important works by Modern African American masters, including Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Ed Clark, and Dox Thrash, at the fair.

The luscious Beauford Delaney abstract shown below is one of them.

Untitled
(1960) Oil on canvas
Private collection
© Estate of Beauford Delaney
by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire,
Court Appointed Administrator
Image courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell Gallery

Ron Rumford, Director at Dolan/Maxwell, comments on this painting as follows:

Beauford Delaney’s non-objective yellow canvases made soon after he established himself in Paris each have very distinct, rich surfaces. Untitled 1960 is notable for its creamy paint textures and soft, closely modulated palette of greens, yellows, hints of orange and very pale greys. Delaney’s use of color is structural and patterns not unlike camouflage seem to almost emerge.

Alas, no set pattern exists, and the very buttery paint has seduced our eyes, leading our gaze over and all around the lush surface. Untitled 1960 is a luminous painting with a quiet, almost spiritual glow that has been carefully coaxed into being with each of Delaney’s expressive brushstrokes.

This painting is also distinctive in that Delaney has included his Paris address “Clamart Seine France 68 R P V Couturier”, along with his signature and year of creation on the back of this quietly powerful canvas.

Untitled 1960 (verso)
Image courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell Gallery

The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory continues through Sunday, January 29, 2023. 

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