LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (height) by 38.00 in. (96.52 cm.) (width)

Markings:

monogrammed FB lower right, signed, dated Aug 1952 and titled en verso, Bultman missed the Life magazine famous photograph of the group in 1951, with fire and heat represented by the color red a common element. The artist recalled the burning of the swamps in Louisiana as a boy: “What appears to be a sheet of water will be burning with very high flames against a blue sky – I don’t know anything else that seems to me as beautiful as that…It’s fire and water. You very seldom see them together in such close juxtaposition as you do when they are burning a swamp.” In addition to the use of color, including one similarly titled “Interior Rain” of 1953. These meticulously crafted compositions bridge nature and personal narrative and set Bultman apart from his contemporaries. Bultman’s work was described by a critic in 1950 as having a “blood on the moon fierceness that strikes at the heart

Condition:

framed

Provenance:

Gift of the Artist, c. 1950s; Private Collection, Uruguay. Exh.: Kootz Gallery, New York, Sept. 15 - Oct. 4, 1952, no. 11.