MISSION STATEMENT: Seraphin Gallery is located in Philadelphia, PA and St. Augustine, Florida. The gallery represents American contemporary painters, sculptures, and photographers, both established and emerging. We do not represent more artists than we can give personal attention and promotion to.
The gallery has always dealt in top blue chip works of the secondary market, including the works of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop School, German Expressionists, American Impressionists and others. Mr. Seraphin pioneered the photography market with his collection of Thomas Eakins photographs in 1976.
Harry Bertoia's drawings are the diary of his creative life, expressing his inner vision of the world around him at the moment he was experiencing it. As a record of his thoughts and ideas and the source of all his art, we have only just begun to appreciate them.
His drawings, beginning in the 1940's, establish Bertoia as a pioneer in the new art of the twentieth century, an artist in the forefront of the international surge towards complete abstraction. He was one of the few American artists of that era to embrace non-objective art. "I draw what I don't know in order to learn something about it," explained Bertoia.
Anne Fabbri