Winter Antique Art and Arms, Dec.14th., 2024
Lot 6639:
Very fine pastel on paper painting attributed to well listed American artist Wolf Kahn (1927-2020). Framed. Signed.
Size: 25 1/8" x 31 1/4" Framed; 17 1/2" x 23 3/4" Unframed.
Provenance: Private art collection Denver, Colorado.
Wolf Kahn (1927 – 2020) was active/lived in New York, Vermont / Germany. Wolf Kahn is known for Abstract landscape and still life painting.
Wolf Kahn is a landscape painter for whom color is his signature. Continually striving for a deeper insight into the possibilities of color, Wolf Kahn makes landscape paintings with techniques of luminism.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Kahn emigrated to the U.S. as a child. After attending classes at the New School for Social Research he studied with Hans Hofmann at his School of Fine Art in New York City.
Wolf Kahn has been honored with numerous awards and his work can be found in the permanent collections of over 100 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Collections:
National Museum of American Art
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Jewish Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Exhibitions:
Hansa Gallery, 1952-53, 1955
Borgenicht gallery, 1956, 1959, 1967
Seligmann Gallery, 1947
"813 Broadway", 1950
Stable Gallery, 1954-55
Whitney Museum, 1960
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