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Lot Essay
American artist Morgan Russell visited Paris for a second time in 1908, where he met Gertrude and Leo Stein, as well as artists Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin. Russell settled in Paris one year later, where he developed the Synchromist movement alongside fellow expatriate Stanford-Macdonald Wright between 1911 and 1913.
Marilyn S. Kushner writes of the present work: "In Synchromist Nude, which is almost life-size, Russell began experimenting with color properties as they relate to space...He used purely spectral colors in this image, and rather than employing local color, he turned to the theory that warm hues advance toward the spectator while cool ones recede into space." (exh. cat., op. cit., 1997, p. 49).
Marilyn S. Kushner writes of the present work: "In Synchromist Nude, which is almost life-size, Russell began experimenting with color properties as they relate to space...He used purely spectral colors in this image, and rather than employing local color, he turned to the theory that warm hues advance toward the spectator while cool ones recede into space." (exh. cat., op. cit., 1997, p. 49).