Sophia WARBURG known as Nicolaas WARB (1906-1957) - Lot 164

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Sophia WARBURG known as Nicolaas WARB (1906-1957) - Lot 164
Sophia WARBURG known as Nicolaas WARB (1906-1957) Imposing Mass, Sept 1945 Oil on panel. Signed, titled, located Paris and numbered 83 on the back. 81,5 x 65 cm 2 000/3 000 PROVENANCE: Me Charbonneaux, sale 21 November 1983, lot 47. Important group of works by Sophia WARBURG, known as Nicolaas WARB (1906-1957) Sophia Warburg, whose pseudonym is Nicolaas Warb, was born in Amsterdam in 1906. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, she decided to move to Paris (1928), where she attended the free academies of Montparnasse. At the intercession of Kees Van Dongen, Sophia was invited to work as a stylist for several Parisian fashion houses. At the same time, she developed her art by frequenting the artists of Montparnasse including Georges Vantongerloo, who encouraged her in her non-figurative research and geometric abstraction. She participated in the Salon des Réalités nouvelles from its inception in 1946, and exhibited there alongside Gleizes, Picabia, de Staël and Herbin among others. The works presented here (dated from 1945 to 1949) are related to this period. Two solo exhibitions were held in Paris in 1947 (Galerie Greuze) and 1954 (Galerie Colette Allendy) as well as a posthumous exhibition at the Galerie Maria de Beyrie (1974). His works are included in the exhibition Abstraction-Creation, Non-Figurative Art from Sept. 20 to Dec. 4, 1974 at the MOMA in New York and his works are kept at the Musées d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Stedelijk in Amsterdam.
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