HARTLEY MARSDEN (Lewiston, Maine 1877 - 1943 Ellsworth, Maine) Still Life, 1923

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  HARTLEY MARSDEN
  (Lewiston, Maine 1877 - 1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
  Still Life, 1923
  oil/canvas/cardboard, 30 x 40,5 cm
  monogrammed M.H. and verso dated 1923
  Provenance: acquired from the artist 1934, private collection USA, Parke-Bernet Galleries New York 1964, private collection London, Koller auction Switzerland 2010, European private collection
  
  ESTIMATE °€ 100.000 - 150.000
  
  American painter of the 20th century. Important representative of Classical Modernism in the USA and American Realism. From 1896 at the Cleveland School of Arts, from 1899 art studies at the Chase School and the National Academy of Design in the master class of William Merritt Chase in New York. Studied the painting technique of Giovanni Segantini. 1909 Contact with photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, organized exhibition at his Gallery 291. 1912 Trip to Europe, in Paris in the circle of patron Gertrude Stein and sculptor Arnold Rönnebeck. Studied there the works of Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. In 1913 in Berlin contact with the German avant-garde, the Blue Rider, intensive exchange with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc and involvement with Cubism and Orphism. From 1921 secretary of the art society S. Dreier, founded by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and the collector Katherine S. Dreier, and the art society Société Anonyme.
  
  This painting is an excellent example of the creative power of the American avant-garde, which is oriented away from styles of European modernism and transforming them into their own vocabulary.
  
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