20|21 Art: The Chicago Edition 
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Rolph Scarlett 1889–1984

Untitled (Checkerboard)

c. 1955
oil on canvas 34 h × 30 w in (86 × 76 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $4,410
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Signed to lower left ‘Scarlett’.
provenance: The Artist | Private Collection | Thence by descent, Private Collection, North Carolina | Private Collection | Nye & Company Auctioneers, Bloomfield, NJ, Estate Treasure, 16 December 2021, Lot 528 | Private Collection

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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The problem is to create an organization from a few geometrical elements that is alive as to color and form, with challenging and stimulating rhythms, making full use of one’s emotional and intuitive creative programming yet keeping it under cerebral control, so that the finished work is a visual experience alive with mysticism, inner order and intrigue grown into a world of art governed by aesthetic authority.

Rolph Scarlett

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