Giorgio Cavallon Italian-American, 1904-1989
Woman Sitting, 1938
Watercolour on paper
22 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
57.1 x 39.4 cm.
57.1 x 39.4 cm.
Signed and dated "Giorgio Cavallon 1938" lower right
Provenance
By descent to the Estate of Richard and Carole Rifkind
Guggenheim curator Fred Licht described the late 1930s as a 'transitional phase' in Cavallon's career (Licht, Tre artisti italo-americani, 15). The artist was exploring light, colour, and the limits of...
Guggenheim curator Fred Licht described the late 1930s as a "transitional phase" in Cavallon's career (Licht, Tre artisti italo-americani, 15). The artist was exploring light, colour, and the limits of figurative painting. In the 1940s he began to increasingly incorporate tones of white into his works. Woman Sitting is almost pure colour - the brushstrokes come together into the figure of a seated woman who may be his mother (she was a frequent subject of his).
