Still Life with Fruit & Vase Pencil Drawing by Robert Kulicke-1950s-Framed

Description: This is a 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inch pencil drawing of fruit & a vase. It was done by New York artist Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007) in the 1950s. It is in excellent condition. It is in a frame measuring 12 1/2 by 15 1/2 inches. This drawing comes out of a sketch book that is pictured here and the cover shows that all in it were done pre-1960. Kulicke became well-known for his small and carefully composed and colorful still lives of fruit, flowers and other common everyday objects. This drawing represents a wonderful and deceivingly simple rendering of one of his early still life works. See the above condition report and the photos. Please excuse the reflections on the glass in a few photos. It will be shipped for $28 via UPS. Robert Kulicke (1924-2007)Born in Philadelphia in 1924, Robert Kulicke studied fine art at the Tyler School of Art. After serving in the army in World War 2 he moved to Paris and was a student at the atelier of Ferdinand Leger whose large-scale approach to painting discouraged Kulicke. He moved back to New York around 1953 and began painting again, mostly small and sensitive still-life and geometric abstracts. His friends most notably included the Abstract Expressionists Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler. Around 1951 Adolph Gottlieb invented his “imaginary landscapes” with opposing forces and in 1954 introduced his “burst” paintings, which depicted arche-typical symbolism. Kulicke probably knew Gottlieb or his work and was either influenced by him or independently produced, around the same time, his own version of these imaginary landscapes and burst paintings & drawings which contained orbs, shapes, arcs, rectangles and curves. One might best observe his symbolism in the same manner Gottlieb and Kulicke likely produced these artworks, that is instinctively with no verbal intention, narrative, or analysis.Kulicke was inspired around 1957 by the smaller scale still-life bottle paintings of the Bolognese, Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. Kulicke, already a master frame maker, increasingly evolved into painting his signature small-scale compositions with an emphasis on bolder color and more meticulous design.However, before he settled into doing his most known oeuvre: intimate, small still-lives of fruit, flowers, pottery, currency and landscapes, Kulicke created “reductive” Abstract Expressionist works and geometric abstracts, diminutive opposites of the mostly large-scale 1950s artwork of Gottlieb. As with most of his work, they are evocations of simple beauty, instinct and emotion. Before becoming what he called an Intimist, Kulicke was also an Abstract Expressionist for most of the 1950s.Kulicke died of pneumonia in Valley Cottage, New York in 2004.

Price: 350 USD

Location: Westfield, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-02-07T02:45:37.000Z

Shipping Cost: 28 USD