Otto FRIED (1922-2020) - Lot 27

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Otto FRIED (1922-2020) - Lot 27
Otto FRIED (1922-2020) Overlapping silence, 1974 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right: "O. fried 74". Height 59 cm; Width: 196 cm Provenance : - Artist's studio. Born in Germany in 1922, Otto Fried arrived in the United States in 1936. After serving in the China-Burma-India Theater of War during the Second World War, he enrolled at the University of Oregon in Art and Architecture. On graduating, Fried moved to Paris to study painting with Fernand Léger. He returned to the United States in 1951 and decided to pursue his painting career in New York, where he met his his wife Micheline. His highly personal figurative style developed and became more lyrical. It continues to reflect his love of Oregon landscapes, nature, birds, leaves and the random discoveries he made on his walks in the woods; this fascination will remain a strong and enduring source of inspiration. It was in the early 1970s that Fried's work evolved towards abstraction. His works still depict the sea, air and earth, but now inscribed in circular forms. These geometric figures became the central subject of his painting. In the 1980s, the artist turned to sculpture, creating bas-reliefs treated with various materials such as kraft paper or folded and cut metal sheets. He later produced sculptures in patinated steel, echoing the geometric themes of his paintings. Alongside his paintings and sculptures, Fried also created commissioned objects and furniture, always drawing his inspiration from the shape of the circle. By the early 1990s, his painting reflected this new direction. Strongly linked to his sculptural work, it became more dynamic in terms of texture and movement. The artist uses larger brushes, giving less importance to isolated circles. In the 2000s, he gave pride of place to reminiscences of the panoramas of the West Coast of the United States. The various elements of these landscapes are superimposed in layers, from which drip-like drips emerge in places. The use of the circle is a constant in Fried's work. During a conversation, the artist admitted to associating the circle with the imagination and stories of the Amerindians he heard during his years in Oregon: the tips of teepees, the discs of the moon and the sun, all images of the natural cycles present at every moment in the Indian way of life. Expert: BRAME ET LORENCEAU
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