Ed Mell
1942-2024
Peach Rose
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 35 x 41 inches
SOLD FOR: $108,000.00
Including Buyers Premium
2026 - APRIL,
LOT 321
Additional Information
Provenance:
Private collection, Indiana circa 1995
Although known for his landscapes of the Southwest, Ed Mell also spent considerable time painting floral subjects in his abstracted, modernist style. Beginning in 1988, his subjects included petunias, hollyhocks, carnations and cactus blooms. “The flower that has become one of his favorites is the rose. Roses are different, he says, with their elegant curves and luminosity so apparent as light strikes the petals,” writes Donald Hagerty in Beyond the Visible Terrain: The Art of Ed Mell. “…These paintings are simplified and stylized, not literal, as Mell endowed them with an inner vitality. Without the loss of delicacy and presence, Mell infused the paintings with a strong design, a tension between representation and abstraction. In the designs, he took the curves of the flowers and expanded them, increasing their fluorescence.”