T. Lux Feininger

African Landscape IV. Congoni

   

African Landscape IV. Congoni
African Landscape IV. Congoni Repro: old photo
  • 1962, in Cambridge, MA
  • Oil on canvas
  • Size not known

  • Inscr. not known

    TLF: "African Landscape IV" (congoni), 1962 [201]; "African Landscape IV", 1962 Cambridge [202, Nr. 130]

    Whereabouts not known
    Provenance: Around 1962 studio sale to Mr. Ralph F. Colin, New York

  • 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..."
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  • Themes:  Fauna & Flora
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