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CARL HOLTY The Seated Angel<>.
Gouache on cream laid paper. circa 1945. 300x230 mm; 11 3/4x9 inches. A study for the same titled painting. Laid down.
Although Holty had been creating abstract paintings for many years, he was always in search of new ways to execute form within the two-dimensional picture plane. In May of 1944, Holty wrote in a letter to Hilaire Hiler "In breaking up the shapes or forms, it is imperative not to attempt to rejoin them because that leads to transformation only. By breaking them and keeping them broken, the forms, large and small, are simply densities in the rhythmic movement of color and shapes." The current work illustrates this broken, rhythmic movement of form and color.
