SHEELER CHARLES (1883 1965) Pennsylvania Barn

Sale 1996 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 12,650

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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

SHEELER, CHARLES (1883-1965)
"Pennsylvania Barn." Silver print, 81/2x61/4 inches (21.6x15.8 cm.), with Sheeler's signature, caption, and notations "about 1922," in pencil, on mount verso and notations on mount recto. Circa 1922

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A startlingly bold abstraction (which was actually created in 1923), that definitively reflects the Precisionist style he coined and developed. Sheeler's paintings were exact, flat, modernist and full of exchanges with a photographic vocabulary, which this work amply demonstrates.