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Beaver Swamp in Autumn, 1975
Wolf Kahn (1927 - 2020)
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Signed lower right of center: W KAHN; on verso: #78 1975; on stretcher bar: Beaver Swamp in Autumn
18 x 24 inches
Signed lower right of center: W KAHN; on verso: #78 1975; on stretcher bar: Beaver Swamp in Autumn
Provenance
Fontana Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Private collection, Pennsylvania, acquired from above, ca. 1976
Sale, Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 3, 2023, lot 54
Note: Speaking on his use of color, Wolf Kahn explained, “I’m always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.”[1]
[1] Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996), 79.
