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Zahara Schatz
Screencirca 1950

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Vertical decorative panel in a slim metal stand, covered with an allover pattern of small schematic motifs — buildings, circles, arrows, and figures — in charcoal and brown on a white textured ground
Freestanding rectangular panel in a metal frame, covered with scattered abstract symbols, geometric shapes, arrows, circles, and curvilinear forms in brown and gray on a white ground.
Freestanding panel in a metal floor mount, covered with an abstract composition of small printed or stenciled symbols—circles, triangles, arrows, grid squares, and curving black marks—scattered across a pale white ground.
Tall vertical mixed-media work on white ground, densely scattered with small abstract symbols in black, gray, and brown — including circles, squares, triangles, arrows, and fluid brushstroke forms — distributed across the surface in an allover composition with vertical Japanese or Chinese script in the upper left corner.
Tall vertical mixed-media composition on white ground, densely scattered with abstract symbols, geometric shapes, and mark-like forms in black, brown, and gray — including circles, triangles, squares, curved strokes, and dot clusters — with columns of Chinese calligraphy at upper right.
Artist or Maker
Zahara Schatz
Title
Screen
Date Made
circa 1950
Medium
Plexiglas, copper, brass, enameled steel
Dimensions
66 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 10 in. (168.91 x 62.23 x 25.4 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Council Fund
Accession Number
M.2011.79
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design

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