Roger Selchow (American, 1911-1994), Bas Composition

oil on canvas, signed at lower right, inscribed en verso, framed.
Stretcher size 25 3.4 x 39 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 26 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.
Roger Hoffman Selchow was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is best known for his paintings of geometric abstractions. He studied at the Grand Central School of Art and Columbia University. After World War II, he absorbed the influences of European Modernism, especially at the Bauhaus, studying in Paris with André Lhote and Fernand Lëger, in Italy at the Istituto Statale d'Arte in Florence, and in Belgium. Selchow's movement within Europe's artists, writers, and poets influenced both his life and work.

He exhibited extensively in Europe as well as the United States, and his works can be found in the permanent collections of NYU, Musee des Beaux Arts, Belgium, Berkshire Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Wadsworth Athenuem, the Bruce Museum, and the Wichita Art Museum.

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With buckling to canvas, age cracking, and associated scattered flaking at the edges.