Victor Thall (1902–1983) — Abstract Cubist Composition

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Original Oil on Canvas (Signed) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Frame: 43.25″ × 33″ Canvas (Sight): 39.75″ × 29.5″ Signature: Signed lower right Date: Circa 1950s–1960s Condition: Tears and paint loss to the canvas; dents and nicks to frame Provenance: Private collection

This dynamic Abstract Cubist oil painting by Victor Thall captures the artist’s hallmark synthesis of geometry, rhythm, and psychological tension.
The composition presents a group of stylized figures in a fractured interior — an energetic orchestration of planes, lines, and muted color fields that evoke Thall’s dialogue with European Cubism and New York School abstraction.

Thall’s brushwork and tonal structure reveal his deep engagement with the emotional language of modernism: tension between order and chaos, form and feeling, intellect and spontaneity.

Victor Thall (1902–1983) was an American painter, draftsman, and muralist who studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York, later joining the circle of artists around Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky.
His works reflect the transition between Cubism, Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism, combining disciplined construction with intuitive color. Thall’s paintings have appeared in galleries and museum collections across the U.S. and Europe and are noted for their lyrical geometry and emotional intensity.