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Composition with White Ovals

Esphyr SlobodkinaWW-1952-164574

1952·Oil, linen, and tacks on composition board·Overall: 38 7/16 × 24 5/8 in. (97.6 × 62.5 cm)

<p>Esphyr Slobodkina, <em>Composition with White Ovals</em>, 1952. Oil, linen, and tacks on composition board, overall: 38 7/16 × 24 5/8 in. (97.6 × 62.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 53.6</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1952
Medium: Oil, linen, and tacks on composition board
Dimensions: Overall: 38 7/16 × 24 5/8 in. (97.6 × 62.5 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Esphyr Slobodkina

Artist

Esphyr Slobodkina

Painting

Esphyr Slobodkina was an American painter and printmaker born in Manchuria and based in New York from the 1930s onward. Her abstract compositions employed bold geometric forms and a restrained color palette rooted in constructivist principles. Slobodkina remained committed to non-objective painting throughout her career, developing a distinctive vocabulary of interlocking planes and linear structures that evolved across several decades of sustained studio practice.

Chelyabinsk, Russia

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