Yosemite IV

1980
Not on view
Bhavsar was born in India, but came to New York in the 1960s, when the city had been firmly established as the capital of the art world. There he met and interacted with many artists, including the well-known Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko. Rothko's spiritual, abstract paintings have had a long-term effect on Bhavsar, who has continued to make meditative pictures of floating fields of color such as this one for almost forty years.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Yosemite IV
  • Artist: Natvar Bhavsar (Indian, born Gujarat, 1934)
  • Date: 1980
  • Medium: Pigment in acrylic binder on paper
  • Dimensions: 46 x 42 in. (116.8 x 106.7 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Edith C. Blum Fund, 1980
  • Object Number: 1980.227
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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