Exceptionelle II
Lot 454:
Description
Keywords: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist, contemporary art, post war painting, modern art, impressionism, American artist
Paul Jenkins pencil signed abstract expressionist watercolor painting. Signed lower right and dated ’67 Paul Jenkins, a colorful Abstract Expressionist who came of age during the heyday of the New York School and for several decades carried on its highly physical tradition of manipulating paint and canvas, died on June 9 in Manhattan, where he lived and had continued to paint. In the late 1940s, joining a wave of aspiring painters moving to New York, Jenkins used the G.I. Bill to study at the Art Students League and soon met Jackson Pollock and befriended Mark Rothko.
Art: 20 x 28 in. (50.8 x 71.1 cm.), Frame: 27 1/2 x 35 1/4 in. (69.9 x 89.5 cm.) approx
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