Antibes

 

Dorr Bothwell

  1902 - 2000 (biography)

1950  

color serigraph / screenprint 

14 3/4 x 10 3/8" image 

pencil, lower right; signed within image in ink 

15 of 25  

titled, dated and editioned in pencil 

 

cream wove 

published 

artist 

ABMM129 

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While it's not certain, this classic mid-century Abstraction with its spiraling, angular form appears to be an interpretation of the famous diamond-shaped, 16th-century Fort Carre, situated on the city's southeastern-most coastal edge. As with other works from this time, Dorr Bothwell chooses a bird's eye vantage point and incorporates splashes of aquamarine and olive green as a nod to the adjacent Mediterranean sea and the tree-covered hillsides surrounding the fort. Set against a rose-red background, the tumbling, kinetic form pops forward off the sheet as if it's dancing. Owing to its unusual architecture and scenic placement, Fort Carre has attracted artists throughout the centuries, including Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Eugene Chigot, and Nicolas de Stael. Bothwell's work often meditates on architectural structures and details, including churches, alters, fences and other man-made boundary markers, and deconstructed interiors.