Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

Kurt SeligmannWW-1959-040175
1959·Oil and tempera on canvas·152.4 × 182.9 cm (60 × 72 in.)

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Year
1959
Dimensions
152.4 × 182.9 cm (60 × 72 in.)

Artist

Kurt Seligmann
Kurt Seligmann

Painting

Kurt Seligmann was an American painter and printmaker who worked across abstraction and figuration, creating dense, layered compositions that incorporated automatist techniques and mythological imagery. Active in the postwar period, he developed a distinctly personal synthesis of Surrealist methods and Jungian psychology, translating psychological states into complex visual narratives. His work combined painting, etching, and collage to explore the unconscious as a generative space.

New York, USA

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Year
1959
Dimensions
152.4 × 182.9 cm (60 × 72 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1959-040175

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Artist

Kurt Seligmann

Kurt Seligmann

Painting

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