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White Oval

1955

Ilya Bolotowsky

(American, born Russia, 1907–1981)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 47.3 x 62.9 cm (18 5/8 x 24 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1965.3
Copyright
© The Estate of Ilya Bolotowsky / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Unlike his contemporaries, Bolotowsky painted many works on oval, circular, or diamond-shaped canvases.

Description

Bolotowsky had a difficult childhood, which entailed immigrating to New York from Russia via a two-year interlude in Constantinople. After the “violent historical upheavals in my early life,” he once stated, “I came to prefer a search for an ideal harmony and order.” These qualities are manifest in White Oval, one of the artist’s most serene compositions.
An oval oil painting with largely desaturated rectangles in a range of sizes shifting between undertones of blue, pink, and yellow. It is inlaid in a rectangular, black frame. Black lines divide the rectangles, with the largest rectangle in the upper left corner and smallest in the lower center.

White Oval

1955

Ilya Bolotowsky

(American, born Russia, 1907–1981)
America

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