Charles Lasseter (1926-2005) American, Mixed Media on Paper Figural Abstract. Depicting  four skeletal or abstracted figures rendered with frantic ink lines and earthy washes of watercolor.. Signed lower right. Unframed.

Reading verso:
"Dec 9, 1993

To my friend Amy Ernst for her future I hope the best

Charles Lasseter"

Provenance: Received as a gift directly from the artist.

Size: 15 x 20 in.

Charles Keeling Lassiter (1926–2005) was an American artist known for his vivid, surreal figurative work that charted its own course apart from dominant mid-20th-century movements like Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Born in New York in 1926, he studied sociology at Yale and art education at NYU, further honing his craft at institutions including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Lassiter’s paintings and drawings are characterized by lively calligraphic figures, quizzical portraits, and bizarre animals, evoking the spirit of artists such as Jean Dubuffet and Paul Klee while maintaining a uniquely personal vision. Despite periods of reclusive living in Manhattan, his work received early recognition, including inclusion in a 1956 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, and today his pieces are held in major collections such as MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery

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