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ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ Group of 6 drawings of Isadora Duncan.
Each watercolor with pen and black ink on paper. Each approximately 178x76 mm; 7x3 inches. Each signed in black ink, lower recto. Ex-collection Dr. Stephen Pepper, New York; thence by descent to the current owner.
Walkowitz (1878-1965) began his career studying at the National Academy of Design in New York before traveling to the Académie Julian in Paris in 1906. While studying in Paris he was introduced both to modernist ideas of abstraction and to a darling of the avant-garde, the dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). In the thousands of drawings Walkowitz created of Duncan, he captured the spirit of her movements more than the naturalistic form of her body. Walkowitz continued producing drawings of Duncan upon returning to New York, even after her untimely death in 1927. These images became central to the ideas of Modernism that Walkowitz expounded along with his contemporaries at Alfred Stieglitz's celebrated 291 Gallery (see also lots 61 and 63-67).
