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Richard Diebenkorn
Double X
1987

Name: Double X
Brand: Richard Diebenkorn
Price: 3680 USD
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Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) is a renowned American painter and printmaker. Diebenkorn is celebrated for his work across abstraction and figuration, moving between the two styles over the course of his career. Beginning his career in the mid-1940s, Diebenkorn moved from San Fransisco to Woodstock where he responded to the post-war cultural shift that ushered in abstract expressionism in New York and beyond. Dedicating nearly a decade to abstract expressionism, Diebenkorn gained prominence for his work before abruptly changing course. He began to explore figuration and become part of the first generation of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Completed in 1987, "Double X" marks the artist's return to abstraction in the last chapter of his oeuvre, when he moved between geometric and lyrical styles. Serving as a pared-down example, this work is a unique synthesis of Diebenkorn's exploration of abstraction, making it an excellent output from the last decade of his career. Today, Diebenkorn's work is enjoyed in numerous international collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA (Los Angeles), Centre Pompidou, and Albertina (Vienna), among others "Double X" USA, 1987 Woodcut Initialed, dated, and numbered by artist From an edition of 50 23.5"H 17.5"W (work) Very good condition.

Creator:

Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993, American)

Creation Year:

1987

Dimensions:

Height: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Width: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)

More Editions & Sizes:

Edition of 50Price: $4,600

Medium:

Woodcut

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

1980-1989

Condition:

Very good condition.

Gallery Location:

Toronto, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: 12-221stDibs: LU215211460872

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Richard Diebenkorn

Known for his gestural yet geometric depictions of American landscapes, Richard Diebenkorn blended Abstract Expressionism and figurative painting like no other artist before him.

Born in Portland, Oregon, but raised in San Francisco, California, Diebenkorn studied art history at Stanford University before enlisting in the Marines. Afterward, on the G.I. Bill, he enrolled at California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute) in 1946, where he became an instructor a year later. In 1950, he pursued a master’s degree at the University of New Mexico.

He lived and worked for a period during the postwar years in New York City, where he met Mark Rothko and immersed himself in Robert Motherwell’s art. However, the perspective that Diebenkorn brought to his paintings and prints was firmly rooted in the West Coast. His canvases, even when he worked in an abstract style, evoked California’s sandy coastlines and varied topography — one of the attributes that set him apart from contemporaries such as Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston.

Diebenkorn is acclaimed for his representational paintings; he was a founding member of the Bay Area Figurative movement, along with David Park and Elmer Bischoff. But he is best known for his lyrical abstract work. He explored abstraction during the 1950s before switching to figuration — creating still lifes and working with live models — and then returned to abstraction, developing a distinctive style that was entirely his own.

When Diebenkorn moved to Southern California, he began to teach at UCLA and commenced work on what would become his enduring “Ocean Park” series, named for the Santa Monica suburb he called home as of 1966 and inspired by the view from his studio — in particular, the light on the landscape outside the windows as framed by the windows themselves. The influence of Henri Matisse loomed large too. Diebenkorn had been an admirer of Matisse’s work since his days in the military, and in 1964, a trip to see the French painter’s work at the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad proved monumental for him.

The “Ocean Park” series, created over the span of two decades, comprised more than 140 large paintings with gentle, shimmering compositions of color arranged in geometric harmony, with the texture of Diebenkorn’s constant reworking of the paint coming through.

“All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression,” Diebenkorn once said. Today, his work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Phillips Collection, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and more.

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