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Diana Vase
Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) 1892 -1990
Hand Carved Encased Glass Vase
Height: 19 inches, Width: 5 inches
2004 From an early original design in Gouache
Edition: 300 numbered |
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.....Willem de Kooning is widely considered
to be one of the greatest Abstract
Expressionist painters of the post-World
War II period, his dominance rivaled perhaps only by Jackson
Pollock. Remembered for his large canvases as well as the
controversial melding of both abstract and figurative imagery, de
Kooning lived much longer than his
conemporaries, many of whom had untimely deaths. The group of
painters that would be identified as New York School was made up of
de Kooning and contemporaries such as Arshile
Gorky and Edgar Denby, and they helped to establish New York City's
reputation as a center for artistic activity. Although his
work appears spontaneous, de Kooning
often spent many months on a single piece, repeatedly painting over
completed sections and occasionally pressing newspaper onto the
drying canvas. Friend and New
Yorker critic Harold Rosenberg first
used the tem "Action painting" to refer
to de Kooning's violent slashes of color and the shifting foreground
and background typical of his abstract work. "Painting
isn't just the visual thing that reaches your retina," the artist
once said, "it's what's behind it. I'm not interested in
abstracting or taking things out or reducing painting to design,
form, line, and color. I paint this way because
I can keep putting more and more things in
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