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Leon Polk Smith (1906 - 1996) — Contemporary Edition
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Lot 111 LEON POLK SMITH (1906-1996)
Leon Polk Smith (1906 - 1996) 
Leon Polk Smith
20.05.1906 - 04.12.1996
USA
Leon Polk Smith was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and he is a follow er of the Hard-edge school. His best-known paintings constitute maximally reduced forms, characterized by just two colors on a canvas meeting in a sharply delineated edge, often on an unframed canvas of unusual shape. His work is represented in many museums in the United States, Europe, and South America. Thanks to a generous bequest from the artist, the Brooklyn Museum has 27 of his paintings on permanent display.