Lorser Feitelson
Artist
Magical Space Forms, 1948, Lorser Feitelson. Oil on board. 30 x 39 ¾ in. Collection of Bunty and Tom Armstrong, New York. © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts. © Photography by Gerard Vuilleumier
Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978) studied art in New York City and Paris before moving to Southern California in 1927. There, Feitelson explored a succession of artistic styles and, by the 1940s, he began painting geometric abstractions that he called “magical space forms.” These compositions juxtapose bold colors and forms to create dynamic effects. Along with John McLaughlin, Karl Benjamin, and Frederick Hammersley, Feitelson was included in Four Abstract Classicists, a seminal exhibition organized by Jules Langsner in 1959. In the 1960s, Feitelson radically reduced his aesthetic to single lines of paint inscribed on open fields of canvas.
Works of Art
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Untitled (Red on White Optical), 1964, Lorser Feitelson. Oil on canvas. 60 x 40 in. Courtesy of D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York. Image © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts. © Photo by Casey Brown
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Magical Space Forms, 1948, Lorser Feitelson. Oil on board. 30 x 39 ¾ in. Collection of Bunty and Tom Armstrong, New York. © Feitelson Arts Foundation, courtesy Louis Stern Fine Arts. © Photography by Gerard Vuilleumier
Explore the Archive
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Modern dancer with paintings by Lorser Feitelson, 1949. Image courtesy of Feitelson Arts Foundation and Louis Stern Fine Arts. © Feitelson Arts Foundation
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Abstract Classicists meet at Lorser Feitelson’s studio in Los Angeles, May 10, 1959
