Lot #57 - Mavis Pusey, 1928-2019 (USA/England)
Mavis Pusey, 1928-2019 (USA/England)
Estimate: 10 000 - 20 000 £
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Lot Description
Mavis Iona Pusey (1928-2019).
Untitled. 1968.
Oil on canvas, size 58,5 x 71 cm (23 x 28 inches).
Frame dimensions 61 x 73,5 cm (24 x 29 inches).
Signed and dated lower left.
In the 1960s, Pusey moved to London to work as a pattern maker for Singer. In 1968, Pusey moved to Paris, back in New York, she took classes from Robert Blackburn to study the painting and printmaking process. In the three years Pusey spent there, she became particularly fond of painting the energy and the beat of construction sites. To her, construction and demolition represented the cycle of death and rebirth, saying herself that “in each of my works...there is a circle to depict the never-ending continuation of natural order and all matter”. By 1971, both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art acquired her work, and the next year, she received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. The painting “Dejygea” displayed at the Whitney, geometrical forms in a variety of geometrical configurations, making space for herself in a white male-dominated art community.
Untitled. 1968.
Oil on canvas, size 58,5 x 71 cm (23 x 28 inches).
Frame dimensions 61 x 73,5 cm (24 x 29 inches).
Signed and dated lower left.
In the 1960s, Pusey moved to London to work as a pattern maker for Singer. In 1968, Pusey moved to Paris, back in New York, she took classes from Robert Blackburn to study the painting and printmaking process. In the three years Pusey spent there, she became particularly fond of painting the energy and the beat of construction sites. To her, construction and demolition represented the cycle of death and rebirth, saying herself that “in each of my works...there is a circle to depict the never-ending continuation of natural order and all matter”. By 1971, both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art acquired her work, and the next year, she received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. The painting “Dejygea” displayed at the Whitney, geometrical forms in a variety of geometrical configurations, making space for herself in a white male-dominated art community.
Conditions
Good condition, no defects and no restoration. Frame has some scuffs and abrasions.
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