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Rolph Scarlett 1889–1984

Untitled

1942
oil on Masonite 31 h × 48 w in (79 × 122 cm)
estimate: $12,000–18,000
result: $15,000
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Signed to lower left ‘Scarlett’.
provenance: Estate of Rolph Scarlett (Via Harriet Tannin) | Private Collection, Hilton Head | Portico New York, Inc.

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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