Henry Botkin

Sleep
1950

A vibrant, abstract painting featuring a jumbled composition of geometric and organic shapes in a variety of colors, with elements that suggest a distorted human figure. The background is predominantly red, and the painting is signed at the bottom right.

A vibrant, abstract painting featuring a jumbled composition of geometric and organic shapes in a variety of colors, with elements that suggest a distorted human figure. The background is predominantly red, and the painting is signed at the bottom right.

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Date
1950

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 30 1/16 × 23in. (76.4 × 58.4 cm)

Accession number
53.19

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Solinger

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/1866

Henry Botkin
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