Dvora Kanegis (American, Contemporary). Untitled acrylic on paper, ca. 1998. Signed at lower right. A vibrant painting of an intriguing visage by Dvora Kanegis that demonstrates Kanegis' dance of vibrant color, abstract foms, and bold line. The mysterious visage is surrounded by enigmatic motifs - a crescent moon, a spiral, a quartered circle, and a band above housing a series of motifs that suggest a visual language or code. Just who is this woman? Where is she from? What is she thinking? Kanegis leaves the answers up to us. Size (sight view): 17.4" L x 11.4" W (44.2 cm x 29 cm) Size (frame): 24.25" L x 18.4" W (61.6 cm x 46.7 cm)

Dvora Kanegis received scholarships to Skidmore College and Yale University, and continued studying art at Columbia University. Bauhaus artist Josef Albers was one of her greatest influences.

Artist Statement: "Life has taken me to a more internal place where quiet feeds me. I used to be interested in painting the thing. Now I am interested in painting the nothing. Less! Less! What is implied, not defined, interests me.

For me color defines space and evokes emotion. I was influenced by the work and teachings of Josef Albers, a Bauhaus artist who left Germany for the United States in 1933. In 1950 he became the head of the Art Department at Yale University. His revolutionary use of color as it defines space and emotion and his methods of teaching about the use of color influenced my work, as it did a great many artists on the east coast. My professor during my years studying art at Skidmore College was one of his students. Later I attended graduate school at Yale University Art School, where Albers? teachings lived on.

Color is more important to me than line or form. I am interested in how colors come forward or recede depending on the color field in which they live and how combinations of colors evoke different feelings. I mix colors depending on my mood and begin to play; I never know what I am going to do when I start painting. It is an exploration, an adventure, which concludes when I like what I see." (Dvora Kanegis for Paquette Gallery, 2017)

Provenance: private Goldstein collection, Denver, Colorado, USA. The Goldstein's have amassed their collection over the past six decades.

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Signed in black paint at lower right. Mounted in frame beneath plexiglass. Artwork has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be excellent save slight toning to paper. Frame is intact and has suspension hardware attached.