These surrealist drawings are all from the Estate of the Artist.
Born in Pittsburgh, raised in Reading, PA,
Baziotes (1912-1963) came to New York City in 1933. He attended the National
Academy of Design and graduated in 1936 and then worked on the New Deal
Projects. In the late 1930s he met the artists Jimmy Ernst, Gerome Kamrowski,
and Matta, with whom he explored Surrealism. In early 1940s he met Jackson
Pollock, Andre Masson, and Robert Motherwell, Abstraction Expressionists with
an interest in Surrealism as well. In his
work Baziotes bridged these worlds. His
first one-man show was at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century Gallery in
1944. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum the Museum of Modern Art, Hunter College,
and New York University. In the 1965 the Guggenheim Museum held a Memorial
Exhibition.
We showed this cache of drawings in November-December, 2012.
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| Baziotes, Woman with Grapes, 12 x 9 inches |
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| Baziotes, Yellow Creature, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Woman on the Beach with Umbrella, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Woman with Long Red Hair, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Swimmer, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Yellow Bull's Head, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Yellow Creature with Fist, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Sunbather with Hose, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Figure with Defoliated Tree, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Red Figure with Trapeze, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Yellow Creature on Tightrope, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Two Figures in Trapeze Act, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Fish, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Funeral, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Woman with Sunlamp, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Woman on Beach with Warships, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, White Figure on Green, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Howling Creature, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Red, Yellow and Blue Creature, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Creature on Red Backgorund, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Creature on Green Background, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Woman with Mirror, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Woman with White Feather, 1936-39 |
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| Baziotes, Creature with Chain, 1936-39 |
