The King

The King

Kurt SeligmannWW-1960-M068566
1960·Oil on canvas·24 1/4 x 20" (61.4 x 50.7 cm)

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Year
1960
Dimensions
24 1/4 x 20" (61.4 x 50.7 cm)

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
1960
Dimensions
24 1/4 x 20" (61.4 x 50.7 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1960-M068566

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Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Kurt Seligmann

Kurt Seligmann

Painting

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