Fine Art, Silverware, Judaica, Chinese and Decorative Art, Part I - Tuesday, Jan 12th
Lot 19577:
Description
Signed, dated 1959 and titled (on the reverse)
Technique
Oil on canvas
Date Created
1959
Dimensions
122 x 111 cm
Provenance
Estate of Sami Yochananof
Condition
Good
Biography
American abstract painter, born in Boston in 1936. Sudied first at the Cooper Union Art School and then in 1955 at Hans Hofmann’s school. First one-man exhibition at the Artists’ Gallery, New York, 1958. Began by painting in a romantic Abstract Expressionist style, with large, loose-edged patches of colour, then developed a more restless, active treatment with loops, intercepted lines and torn shapes. Received various awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship 1964.
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