3/4 length portrait of a seated woman wearing a pale blue-grey dress with short sleeves, black belt, and a small green and black hat, with her arm resting on a rust red element; blue-grey ground; received in silver and black frame

Portrait of Laura Soltze, 1934

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The hard angles that make up this woman's face, lines of her dress, and solid volume of her body show Charles Biederman's early flirtation with abstraction. Eventually he would eliminate all clear references to the natural, observed world, But here, depictung the portrait sitter with care and even tenderness, he adopted a strategy of reduction in order to streamline form and provide a new way of seeing a traditional subject.

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Title
Portrait of Laura Soltze
Artist Life
1906–2004
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2021.117
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3/4 length portrait of a seated woman wearing a pale blue-grey dress with short sleeves, black belt, and a small green and black hat, with her arm resting on a rust red element; blue-grey ground; received in silver and black frame
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