Ancient to Modern World Antiquities
Lot 100:
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Peter Kitchell believes that "Color is like music. One color is meaningless by itself, it takes its meaning from its relationship to other colors, from the rythum of its structure." The child of two architects, Kitchell was primed to be an artist at an early age and encouraged to paint. After the family moved from Exeter, N to San Francisco, Kitchell attended art classes for children at the Museum of Modern Art and De Young Museum beginning at five and was exposed to modern abstract painting by the age of nine. In the late 60’s he studied with Rolf Penn, a former Bauhaus student of Kandinsky and Kylee. By 1970 Peter Kitchell was technically proficient, and decided that he could learn more from travel than school, and set off on a journey that took him through Europe, Northern and Central Africa, the Caribbean and across the United States. Shortly thereafter, he went from the museums of Europe to the raw desert culture of Morocco, traveling throughout the African continent. Kitchell painted or drew every day, teaching himself watercolor while living among the Berber and Tuareg tribes. His large scale watercolors refrence nature, both primal and pastoral, influences of the landscapes and cultures he has expirinced, the light and color he has absorbed in his travels. Kitchells paintings "…are not really abstract, " but rather, "are objects, pictures of things. The paintings are elements of a story that unconsciously suggest ‘something.’ I am sucessful if I can figure out what they suggest in a universal way… creating a picture story." Kitchell’s work has been showed consistently at several galleries and his works are included in the prestigious corporate collections of AT and T, Dean Witter & Co., ITEL, Stanford University, Bank of America, ARCO, Westinghouse Corporation and IBM Corporation. The subject measures 45"x30", overall framed 56"x41." See attached photos as evidence of condition and details.
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