Blue and Black Vertical

Ilya Bolotowsky was a Russian-born abstract painter and sculptor who worked predominantly in geometric abstraction and neoplasticism from the 1930s onward. He developed a rigorous vocabulary of primary colors, straight lines, and rectangular forms influenced by Mondrian and the De Stijl movement. Bolotowsky lived and worked in New York from 1923, becoming a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group and a key figure in establishing geometric abstraction in postwar America. His paintings and wall-sized murals reduced composition to essential relationships between color and form, executed with technical precision across canvas, panel, and architectural commissions.

Saint Petersburg, Russia