

Something Else No. 70
2021
Something Else No. 70 draws the viewer into a sustained encounter with color as a living, breathing force. Painted in acrylic on a square canvas measuring 111.8 × 111.8 cm, the work belongs to Edith Baumann's ongoing Something Else series, in which she investigates how hue, saturation, and layered surface tension can generate emotional states that resist easy naming. The square format is far from incidental, its equidistant edges creating a kind of visual equilibrium that allows the interior color relationships to unfold without the hierarchy imposed by landscape or portrait orientation. Baumann applies acrylic with a sensitivity more often associated with oil, building translucent veils that accumulate depth and a quiet luminosity. Baumann, who works at the intersection of Color Field painting and a more intimate, process-driven sensibility, has developed a practice devoted to the threshold between feeling and form. Something Else No. 70 reflects her conviction that abstraction can carry genuine psychological weight without resorting to narrative or symbol. The title itself is an act of deliberate openness, pointing toward experience that exceeds conventional categories. Works from this series have attracted sustained collector attention for their ability to shift in appearance across different lighting conditions, rewarding long-term ownership in ways that reproductions cannot capture. Signed by the artist and offered through Modernism Inc., Something Else No. 70 represents a confident and fully resolved moment within a body of work that continues to grow in critical and market significance. The unframed presentation invites collectors to consider framing choices that complement their own environments, making the acquisition process a natural extension of the contemplative spirit the painting itself embodies.
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Modernism Inc.View on map
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