Living Contemporary 
7 October 2021
Living Contemporary 
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Rolph Scarlett 1889–1984

Multi-Color Abstraction on Gray

gouache and watercolor on paper 18¾ h × 16⅜ w in (48 × 41 cm)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
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Signed to lower right ‘Scarlett’.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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The problem is to create an organization from a few geometrical elements that is alive as to color and form, with challenging and stimulating rhythms, making full use of one’s emotional and intuitive creative programming yet keeping it under cerebral control, so that the finished work is a visual experience alive with mysticism, inner order and intrigue grown into a world of art governed by aesthetic authority.

Rolph Scarlett

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