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Robert Natkin
Untitled. Very large original screen print

1986

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About the Item

This artwork "Untitled" 1986 is a large original color screen print on Wove paper by noted American abstract expressionist artist Robert Natkin, 1930-2010. IOt is hand signed, dated and numbered 12/90 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 42 x 30 inches, sheet size is 48 x 36 inches. It is in excellent condition, the color are fresh and bright, it has never been framed. Will ship in a 8 inches diameter tube. About the artist: Robert Natkin is an American abstract painter, who has been working since the early 1950s to create lyrical paintings, which are represented in the permanent collections of major museums as well as in corporate and private collections and galleries in the USA, Europe and Japan. In a 1991 book entitled The Many Masks of Modern Art, Theodore F. Wolff notes that Natkin is far from being "a formal purist, a designer and architect of abstract compositions intended to stand strictly on their own." Wolff describes Natkin's paintings as "subtle evocations of the gentler, more ineffable levels and dimensions of our physical and spiritual universe" and sums up their impact by calling the artist "a visual poet whose apparently abstract images actually exist to enchant us with intimations and evocations of things we can sense but never quite see." Natkin's style has evolved through several series of paintings, sometimes revisited. As influences that have affected his work he names American jazz vocalists such as Nina Simone and Billie Holliday as well as Post-Impressionist, Cubist and Abstract Expressionist painters. Born in Chicago in 1930, Natkin encountered Abstract Expressionism in 1949 through an article in Life magazine. At that time a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, he later lived briefly in New York, where he felt deeply influenced by Willem de Kooning's paintings. Returning to Chicago, he became closely associated with other Chicago artists, including his future wife, Judith Dolnick, and opened a gallery in which their work was exhibited in the late 1950s. These artists, including Natkin, were prominent in Chicago's 1957 Momentum exhibition; and in 1960 Natkin was included in the Young America exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York. Among the museums now holding his art in their collections are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Art, to name only a few in this country; plus the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia.
  • Creator:
    Robert Natkin (1930-2010, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1986
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: nat/unt/011stDibs: LU66639911732

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