Titled "Sunday Game" 1984 Large abstract. Signed, titled and dated verso. Oil on canvas, unframed. Provenance: Dr Baltharol Folk Tiburon, Ca.
Sam Tchakalian was born in Shanghai, China, and lived there during the first 17 years of his life. After World War II and much civil and political unrest in China, along with his brothers Manuel and Edward, the family relocated to San Francisco, California.
Tchakalian completed his MFA degree from San Francisco State in 1958 and committed to becoming a full-time career artist and art teacher. He maintained a studio and home in Haight-Ashbury for the next 40 years of his life.
In the late 1960s Tchakalian's work devveloped into a more minimalist and large-scale format focused on the purity of paint and color often scraped across the surface. Tchakalian's bold and energetic large-scale color-field paintings with thick texture and muted colors would become his identifiable and personal style.
Size: 72 1/2 x 72 1/2 in.