This oil on canvas, entitled “Composition #17” by Georgi Daskaloff, uses abstract geometric shapes, creating an excellent representation of depth. The dominant cream palette allows the viewer to be drawn in to the abstract depths of the painting and the different textures throughout the piece. The frame is walnut with a gold leaf detail, simple yet complimentary to the artwork. This piece would accentuate any interior as the colors are neutral and faint.
Georgi Daskaloff was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1923 and graduated from the art school at Sofia University in 1949. He ‘defected’ to the West in 1960 and was living in Paris before moving on to New York. Inspired by the 1950s Abstract Expressionism, Daskaloff painted in a pop-art influenced abstracted figurative style using bright colors. He was able top express much more freely with his work in the United States as opposed to the environment of limitation of the Soviet bloc. He showed widely, having solo exhibitions in Copenhagen, Brussels, New York and Geneva as well as at Galerie Jacques Massol in Paris in 1968 and London’s Ewan Philips Gallery in 1969. Daskaloff’s work is held in a number of public collections including British Museum, Joslyn Memorial Gallery in Omaha and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
