23 Original Tempera on Paper for the Abstract Animation Film Quadrate / Squares

by Oskar Fischinger

$110,000 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

Berlin: NP, 1934. Original artwork 12 1/8 x 11 5/8 . Twenty-three paintings representing a substantial part of Oskar Fischinger's short film Quadrate Squares , a four minute silent 35mm abstract animation film in color. The 271 separate frames for this film were painted in tempera on paper by Oskar Fischinger in July 1934, as cited by William Moritz, in Optical Poetry The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger, 2004.

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