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MERTON D. SIMPSON (1928 - 2013) #1 Performer.
Oil with Mali hunting cloth on canvas, 1991. 558x711 mm; 22x28 inches. Initialed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and dated in ink, verso.
Provenance: the estate of Merton D. Simpson; private collection.
Exhibited: Ancestral Improvisation, Galerie Noir d'Ivoire, Paris, March 27 - April 11, 1992, then traveled to: Tambaran Gallery, New York, September 18 - October 15, 1993.
Illustrated: Merton D. Simpson: Ancestral Improvisation, essay by Allan Stone, Galerie Noir d'Ivoire, Paris, p. 8.
#1 Performer, along with thirty other works in the Ancestral Improvisation series, are Simpson's search for "self-knowledge" and "psychological portraits." Inspired by jazz, primordial ancestry and Cubism, Simpsons' use of cloth and oil to create abstract portraits allowed him to explore memory in a subtle and modern manner. Stone p. 2.
