$160
Signed in bottom right corner and numbered 111/175; measures approximately 21-1/2" x 25-1/2" with gilded frame and has a sight image of approximately 14-1/2" x 18-3/4"; depicting abstract mountain landscape. Aristodimos Kaldis (August 15, 1899, in Dikeli, Asia Minor, Turkey-1979) was an artist and left-wing activist in New York. It is impossible to think of East Tenth Street and of the gallery and museum scene during the 1950s without including Kaldis in the picture. His friendship with leading members of the New York School dated from the 1930s. During the 1940s he sometimes supported himself by giving lectures on art and archeology in a room at Carnegie Hall - with Willem de Kooning at the slide projector. These lectures were attended by large numbers of New York artists.
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2015-02-21
