About the artwork
In Caradoc, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, one of the few women associated with the Second School of Paris, captures a dynamic interplay between color, rhythm and abstraction. The composition, built on a bright blue background, is energized by gestural golden forms that seem to oscillate between organic and architectural structures. Ehrenhalt's characteristic fluid movement and intuitive brushstrokes reflect both his American Abstract Expressionist roots and his decades-long dialogue with European lyrical abstraction. Each stroke radiates vitality, suggesting musical or emotional improvisation rather than static composition.
Expert opinion
The title Caradoc, probably inspired by the Celtic legend of King Caradoc, adds a mythical resonance to the work, as if Ehrenhalt's abstract forms were concealing an ancient tale beneath their modern expressiveness. This limited edition lithograph illustrates Ehrenhalt's mastery of color harmony and compositional freedom, characteristic of his unique style in mid-twentieth-century abstraction.
About the artist
Born in 1928 in Newark and died in 2021 in Manhattan, Amaranth-Roslyn Ehrenhalt is a major American artist of Abstract Expressionism. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951, she began her career in New York in the 1950s, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was enjoying great success on the contemporary scene. She then moved to Paris, where she met artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Yves Klein and Alberto Giacometti. Her work bears witness to her European and American influences, in terms of abstraction, lyricism and color. Inhabited by motifs evocative of planets and stars, her vivid paintings are the result of extensive research into color and form, notably using lithographs and watercolors. She has taken part in numerous exhibitions around the world, including a solo show at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York in 2012, the group exhibition Elles font l'abstraction at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2021, and the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2023.
“"I follow color as if it were music, letting it guide me where it wants to go." - Amaranth Ehrenhalt on her practice”
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