HANS MOLLER
Collage #150C.

Paper collage, ink and oil on illustration board, 1956. 366x275 mm; 14â…œx10â…ž inches. Signed, dated and titled in white pencil, lower recto.

Provenance: Otto Gerson Gallery, New York; private collection, Palm Springs; private collection, New York.

Moller (1905-2000) was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1936 where he worked as an artist and graphic designer. In the 1940s Moller was among the many artists who turned to abstraction. Moller's version of Abstract Expressionism was rooted in the spiritualism of color, much like Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). During the late 1950s Moller divided his time between New York and the artist colony on Monhegan Island, Maine. The island provided a natural, dramatic backdrop for Moller's luminous, richly-colored paintings of patterned and abstract landscapes.