Abstract Heads

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ALFRED HENRY MAURER (1868-1932)
Abstract Heads
signed 'A.H. Maurer' (upper right)
gouache on paper
21 ½ x 18 in. (54.6 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1920-30.

Provenance

Marie Sterner, New York.
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, 1949.
Jefferson Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1969.

Exhibited

Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, on extended loan.
(Possibly) New York, Wildenstein & Co., Loan Exhibition of Seventy XX Century American Paintings, February 17-March 22, 1952, no. 17.
Los Angeles, California, Jefferson Gallery, October 1968.
San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Out of Sight: Works of Art From San Diego Collections, March 18-April 23, 1972, n.p.
San Diego, California, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Collects, January 10-February 24, 1975.

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Lot Essay

According to Stacey B. Epstein, Maurer's compositions of abstracted heads "reconsider this subject in Cubist terms, distilling human form into a reductive geometric vocabulary...[these works] still clearly reference human form, but not in a corporeal fashion; rather, they present the figure in abstract crystalline terms, fragmented in form." (Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism, exhibition catalogue, Andover, Massachusetts, 2015, p. 192)

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