Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement.
Dzubas studied art in Germany before fleeing the Nazis in 1939 and settling in New York City. During the 1940s, Dzubas circulated with some of the leading abstract painters in the city's vital art scene, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Katherine Dreier. Dzubas participated in the legendary 9th Street Art Exhibition in 1951, a groundbreaking art exhibit featuring a number of his boundary-pushing contemporaries. This exhibition acted as an introduction to the New York School of postwar avant-garde artists.
Dzubas worked in close proximity to, and was strongly influenced by the emerging color field painters. He shared a studio with Helen Frankenthaler as she began pouring and staining her canvases. The two evolved and each surpassed the techniques embraced by the Abstract Expressionists.
"ABC" is exemplary of Dzubas' use and love of powerful colours. Cadmium red and maroon swaths command this composition, guiding the viewer's eye. More subtle shades of mint green, grey, pink, and yellow accent the red hues, offering a visual balance to the brighter elements. This print is a full yet balanced visual cacophony--a wonderful example of Dzubas' mastery in colour application.
Today Friedel Dzubas' works hang in the permanent collections of some of the most prestigious art institutions in the world; including, the Whitney Museum (NY), the Guggenheim (NY), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (NY), and the Albright-Knox (Buffalo).
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"ABC"
USA, 1984
Color serigraph on Arches 88 paper
Titled in pencil, lower centre
Signed and dated in pencil, lower right
Numbered "bon a tirer" in pencil, lower left
BAT proof*
22.5"H 29"W (work)
Very good condition
*BAT is an abbreviation of the printmaking term "bonne à tirer" which translates as "good to pull" or to proceed with the production of the edition. This supersedes an "Artist Proof"
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