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Charles Seliger
1926-2009
Study for Acorns
1962
9 7/8 x 14 15/16 inches (25.1 x 38 cm)
Pen and brush and matte opaque paint on paperboard.
2009.427
Gift of Elaine Graham Weitzen.
Notes
Charles Seliger has been associated with the abstract expressionist movement since the mid-1940s when his works were exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim's Gallery in New York. Throughout his career, his art relied heavily on chance - the automatism of the Surrealists - as a point of departure. He would then develop meticulous and intricate compositions influenced by his interest in natural sciences.
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Recto: Signed at lower right; Verso: inscribed, "For dear Elaine - love, Charles Seliger June 22/62
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Century Drawings
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