Shirley Goldfarb

Untitled (SG42514)

1963

SHIRLEY GOLDFARB Untitled (SG42515), 1962 Oil on paper 5 x 8 inches

Abstract painting from the late 1950s by Nicolas Carone. It is the painting on the right in the installation photograph. Carone was a longtime friend and collaborator of Willem ...

AL HELD Untitled, 1950 - 1952 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Signed verso

SHIRLEY GOLDFARB LA 8, 1969 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches signed on back "Goldfarb '69"

arone was a longtime friend and collaborator of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock beginning in the early 1950s when he settled in East Hampton. Throughout the 1950s he was the di...

EDWARD DUGMORE 1961-F, 1961 Oil on canvas 104 1/4 x 144 3/4 inches

Oil, pastel, and paper collage on canvas. Signed and dated verso. 52.75 x 47.75 in. 54 x 49 in. (framed) Gilded floater frame. Provenance Compass Rose, Chicago Born Sylvan Irwin Goldberg in 1924 and raised in the Bronx, Michael Goldberg was an important figure in American Abstract Expressionism, who began taking art classes at the Art Students League in 1938. A gifted student, Goldberg finished high school at the age of 14 and enrolled in City College. He soon found New York’s jazz scene to be a more compelling environment, and he began skipping classes in favor of the Harlem jazz clubs near campus. Goldberg’s love of jazz would become a lifelong passion and a key component to his approach to composition in his paintings. From 1940 to 1942, like many of the leading artists of the New York School, Goldberg studied with Hans Hofmann. In 1943, he put his pursuit of painting on hold and enlisted in the U.S. Army. Serving in North Africa, Burma, and India, Goldberg received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star before being discharged in 1946. After his service, he traveled and worked in Venezuela before returning to the United States, settling back in New York and resuming studies with Hofmann and at the Art Students League. Living downtown and frequenting the Cedar Bar, Goldberg befriended many of the artists of the New York School. In 1951, his work was included in the groundbreaking Ninth Street Show, co-organized by Leo Castelli, Conrad Marca-Relli, and the Eighth Street Club, and featuring the work of - among others - Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. In 1953, the Tibor de Nagy...

A Scottish Glasgow School Abstract Expressionist mixed media painting by Grant McTavish. The work is signed and dated bottom right and is resigned and dedicated to the backboard. The...

Mid-Century Modern black and white abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Tovanovich (1931- 2016). C...

Mid-Century Modern black and white abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Tovanovich (1931- 2016). C...

Mid-Century Modern black and white abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Tovanovich (1931- 2016). C...

2011-2013. Paper, plastic glass, oil, 90x68cm