Bird

Catalogue

Year
1955
Dimensions
24.5 × 19.7 cm (9 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Artist

Charles Seliger
Charles Seliger

Drawing

Charles Seliger was an American painter and sculptor whose abstract work emerged from postwar geometric and organic vocabularies. Working primarily in oil and mixed media, he developed intricate compositions that balanced mathematical precision with biomorphic forms, creating surfaces of substantial visual density. His practice spanned six decades without major institutional retrospectives, yet his rigorous formal investigations maintained a consistent philosophical commitment to the interaction of color, line, and spatial illusion.

New York City, NY, USA

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