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WILLIAM BAZIOTES Untitled (Glyphic Studies).
Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1945. 214x276 mm; 8 1/2x11 inches. With the artist's black ink stamp signature, lower right recto. Ex-collection Snyder Fine Art, New York, with the gallery label.
William Baziotes (1912-1963), who was of Greek descent, befriended Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in 1942, with whom he regularly played Surrealist games and penned poetry. His work, fraught with spirtuality and Surrealist tendencies, draws upon many sources, including primitive images, namely Meso-American art and glyphics that many Abstract Expressionists found inspiring; Pollock and Baziotes must have shared their interests in the primitive openly, as Pollock's etchings (lots 451 and 452), which demonstrate his interest in glyphics, date to the same time of the present lot.
