Lot #14 - Charles Ramsey, 1875-1951 (France/USA)
Charles Ramsey, 1875-1951 (France/USA)
Estimate: 10 000 - 15 000 £
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Lot Description
Abstract composition, c.1930s
Oil on canvas, size 50,5 x 40,5 cm (20 x 16 inches)
Frame dimensions 59 x 49 cm (23 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches)
Signed lower right, sketch of a had on verso
Charles Frederic Ramsey (1875-1951) was the earliest artist to champion the radical ideas of abstraction within the established Impressionist art colony of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Formal art training began in 1893 at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (a forerunner to the Philadelphia Museum of Art). The young Ramsey attended for a year during which he was awarded the Weber Prize for work in design. Ramsey then went to France to attend classes at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1896 to 1898. During the thirties, Ramsey produced some of his most outstanding abstractions. Although he never acknowledged any foreign influences, judging by his work from this period his most significant influences were probably the famous European abstractionists Piet Mondrian and Fernand Leger. Ramsey's compositions became more abstract and geometric, adopting crisp, linear contours.
Oil on canvas, size 50,5 x 40,5 cm (20 x 16 inches)
Frame dimensions 59 x 49 cm (23 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches)
Signed lower right, sketch of a had on verso
Charles Frederic Ramsey (1875-1951) was the earliest artist to champion the radical ideas of abstraction within the established Impressionist art colony of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Formal art training began in 1893 at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (a forerunner to the Philadelphia Museum of Art). The young Ramsey attended for a year during which he was awarded the Weber Prize for work in design. Ramsey then went to France to attend classes at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1896 to 1898. During the thirties, Ramsey produced some of his most outstanding abstractions. Although he never acknowledged any foreign influences, judging by his work from this period his most significant influences were probably the famous European abstractionists Piet Mondrian and Fernand Leger. Ramsey's compositions became more abstract and geometric, adopting crisp, linear contours.
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Blacklight: No evidence of restoration. The surface is dirty in accordance with its age.
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