Ibram Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents; he went to America in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and other artists. He also attended the City College of New York. He died in East Hampton, New York in 2003.
[Silkscreen, 66.7 x 54.0 cm]
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