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Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

American, 1922-1993

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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Artist: Richard Diebenkorn
Group of 4 lithographs
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
Group contains "Untitled #2," "Untitled #4", "Untitled #5" and "Untitled #6." Each printed on Hahnemühle German etching paper. One initialed, dated and numbered 37/42 in pencil and t...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Richard Diebenkorn, Olympic Lithograph, 1984, Deluxe signed Lt Ed w/official COA
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
Richard Diebenkorn 1984 Olympic Lithograph (Hand signed deluxe limited edition w/Olympic Committee COA), 1982 Offset Lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment paper 24 × 36 inches Edition of 750 Hand signed by Richard Diebenkorn in graphite pencil on the front (unnumbered) Published by Knapp Communications Corporation for Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the publisher. This is one of only 750 hand signed lithographic posters, published in 1982 to celebrate the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics . However, the publisher is said to have destroyed many of the works that did not sell in the original marketing period, so only about 200-250 are said t remain. The Olympic Committee commissioned 15 nationally known artists, including West Coast artists like Sam Francis and Richard Diebenkorn, to create unique designs to promote the event. This was Diebenkorn's contribution to the portfolio. Hand signed Richard Diebenkorn prints (with the full signature) like this are extremely elusive and desirable. excellent provenance as it was acquired as part of the complete portfolio of limited edition hand signed Olympic prints, all held in the original box with colophon. All of the works in this rare portfolio, including this Diebenkorn lithograph...
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1980s Abstract Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Seated Nude
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce, early lithograph on Rives BFK. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 100. Initialed, dated and inscribed "a. p. II" in ink, lower margin. P...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Untitled, 1983 (Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary)
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Greenwich, CT
Richard Diebenkorn's Untitled from 1983 is one of the prints included in the famed 'Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary' portfolio published by MOCA as a fundraise...
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20th Century Contemporary Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Seated Woman in a Striped Dress
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this early lithograph on Arches. Initialed, dated and numbered 5/100 in pen and black ink. Printed and published by Original Press, San Francisco, with the ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Seated Woman in Chemise
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this scarce, early lithograph on Rives BFK. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 100. Initialed, dated and inscribed "a...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Blue Softground
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
Created by Richard Diebenkorn in 1985, Blue Softground is a color etching and aquatint on wove paper. Hand-signed with initials, dated, and numbered from the edition of 35, the artwo...
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20th Century Abstract Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Untitled (for Harvey Gantt)
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Rives BFK. Initialed, dated and numbered 183/250 in pencil. Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with the blind sta...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Tri-Color II
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Chuck Close Self Portrait, 2012 is hand-signed by Chuck Close (Washington, 1940 - New York, 2021) in pencil in the lower right margin and is ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Untitled, Richard Diebenkorn
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful original six-color lithograph, printed on Arches Cover White paper in 1982, was created by Richard Diebenkorn and is monogrammed by the artist in pencil, dated and num...
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20th Century Abstract Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Six Softground Etchings, #1
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A highly influential mid-century American artist, Richard Diebenkorn is known for his abstract landscape paintings, in particular, the "Ocean Park" series, which he exhibited when re...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Ochre
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
A print of exquisite beauty included in the permanent collections of MoMA, The MET, the National Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago among other major arts institutions,...
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20th Century Abstract Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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Folsom Street Variation III (Primaries)
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in New York, NY
Superb color work by American Abstract Expressionist master Richard Diebenkorn, from a limited edition of 60. Signed by Diebenkorn and numbered in pencil. Published by Crown Point ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Richard Diebenkorn Abstract Prints

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