Sentences with phrase «gossamer lightness»

These modernist impulses weave together in his best late works, from the gossamer lightness of «White Abstraction» (circa 1935) to a last, grand, dense painting completed in 1941, just before a stroke ended his career at age 59.

In 1958, The New York Times wrote of their «gossamer lightness» and the way «the circular and oval shapes seem like magic lanterns, one within the other.»