Frederic Karoly

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Frederic Karoly
1898-1987
Figural Group: A Man with a Fisherman's Net and a Woman Carrying a Child
20th century
Pen and brown ink on paper.
13 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (334 x 215 mm)
Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation.
2001.52
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An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography.

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Christian Humann.
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