Abstraction already turning back into a body. Hélion called it “a figure. Something standing up. With a small part on the top, a fat part in the middle, a smaller part at the feet.” Smooth volumes in chalky tan, rust, and slate, modelled so the flat shapes swell into things. Painted just before he abandoned abstraction outright for the figure. Jean Hélion, French, 1904-1987, 1935. Oil on canvas. Gift of Peggy Guggenheim.
Grows from
My own looking, not RM’s pointing. Wire in a concept link if one fits.
First seen
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston · September 2022