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Sat, Jun 6, 2015 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Jun 7, 2015 11:00AM EDT
Lot 589

PAUL KELPE (1902-1985): UNTITLED

Estimate: $5,000 - $9,000
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Oil on canvas, signed 'P. Kelpe' lower right. 14 x 11 in., 22 x 19 in. (frame).Note: German-born painter Paul Kelpe was an early proponent of abstract painting in 1930's Chicago, where he was employed as a WPA muralist. His Bauhaus-inspired arrangements of geometric shapes representing buildings, wheels and machinery was his way of incorporating representational imagery into essentially abstract designs.