Composition with Guitar
<p>Heir to a large banking fortune, Albert Eugene Gallatin started collecting art at the age of 17, forming an important collection of American and European modernist art following World War I. He began to paint in 1926, studying in Paris and paying frequent visits to the studios of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. The present collage suggests the strong influence of their brand of Synthetic Cubism. Gallatin’s collection was given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1943.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1937
- Dimensions
- 46.9 × 36.5 cm (18 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Albert Eugene Gallatin
Artist
Painting
Albert Eugene Gallatin was an American painter and collector whose abstract work emerged in the 1920s, informed by his engagement with European modernism and his role as a curator and advocate for non-representational art. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a geometric vocabulary of interlocking planes and restrained color that reflected his study of Cubism and Constructivism. Gallatin founded the Gallery of Living Art in New York, an early institutional platform for abstract and avant-garde work in America during a period of widespread skepticism toward non-objective painting.
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- Albert Eugene Gallatin
- Year
- 1937
- Dimensions
- 46.9 × 36.5 cm (18 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1937-073274
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified