$400
IRMA CAVAT, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 1968, 48" X 70", "YET THE STATUES BEND":Signed. Arwin Gallery label. Title: Yet the Statues Bend sometimes dividing desires in two like a peach". Irma Cavat was a native of Brooklyn, New York. She became a professional artist in her early twenties. She studied with Russian sculptor, Alexander Archipenko and modeled for French surrealist painter, Renee Magritte. As a young artist, she worked with Willem De Kooning and became part of the Abstract Expressionist group, which included Jackson Pollack and Larry Rivers, in the early 1950s. Her awards include residencies at Yaddo in New York, the McDowell Colony in Maine, the Djerassi Foundation in Northern California, and a Fulbright Grant to Rome, Italy. She resided in Rome from 1955 to 1964. Cavat died in 2002.
Auctioneer:
Dumouchelle Art Galleries
Date:
2013-06-16
