T. Lux Feininger

African Landscape III. Oryx I

   

African Landscape III. Oryx I
African Landscape III. Oryx I Repro: A22
  • 1959, in Cambridge, MA
  • Oil on canvas
  • Size not known

  • Inscr. lower right: LF

    TLF: "African Landscape III" (oryx 1) , 1959 [201]; ""African Landscape II" [sic] (oryx I), 1959 Cambridge [202, Nr. 117]

    Whereabouts not known
    Provenance: 1962 traded with Mr. Donald Bahr, Cambridge, MA, later Tempe, AZ, against Bahr's painting "Nicolas Gomez and his Ox"

  • TLF: "In the course of the next few years, I painted several “African Landscapes”, a total of eight compositions. The first one ... is one of the early pictures wherein the “snake” has become an “animal” - another way of saying that “herpetological cubism” had become “animal cubism”, until in the late 1960s it made way, first, for “figure cubism” and lastly ceased to be any kind of –ism. ...
    These compositions are amongst my strongest color work. They are populated by essentially peaceful, i.e. non-predatory, creatures... I take it that this may have to do with my getting over the worst of my anger at a hypocritical society misled by venal scientists..."
    [205]

  • Themes:  Fauna & Flora
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