Lot 1099
Blanche Lazzell (American, 1878-1956, active Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1915-1956) 'Abstraction: Violet and Green, No 3', oil on board, signed and dated '32' lower right, signed and titled twice on previous mat board, labels from 'Pioneer American Cubist Works from 1920 to 1950', May 4-29, 1982 at Martin Diamond Fine Arts, New York City and 'Private Collections in our Community I', April 13-24, 1983 at Fine Arts Museum of the South (today Mobile Museum of Art) en verso sight 5.5in x 6.25in E6000-9000 Provenance: William E Koch, Mobile, Alabama. Note: After Lazzell's formal training, under William Merritt Chase at New York's Art Students League, she became heavily influenced by the avant garde movement during her studies with anti-academic Charles Guerin at the Academie Moderne in Paris in 1912 After studying with Andre Lhote, Albert Gleizes and Fernand Leger, she adopted abstraction and began painting cubist and geometric works, many of which she would later exhibit at the Salon d'Automne from 1923-1930 She returned to America in 1924 during the 1930s was a Works Progress Administration artist based in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she would later go on to study with one of the seminal pioneers of abstract expressionism, Hans Hofman from 1937-1938.
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