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ROLPH SCARLETT (1889-1984) Design for a modernist stage set. Watercolor and graphite on paper. 178x233 mm; 7x9 1/4 inches. Signed "Scarlett" in graphite, with Artist's estate stamp above it, on verso. Taped to stiff paper and hinged to new matte.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY, 2013; current owner.
Scarlett worked as a set and costume designer for plays and films in Los Angeles before traveling to Europe to explore modernism and abstraction. He continued in this direction upon his return to New York City in the 1930s, where he moved in avant-garde circles and created the majority of nonobjective paintings for which he became famous.
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