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Norman Bluhm
Description
- Norman Bluhm
- Wedding Ring
signed, titled and dated 59 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 48 by 40 in. 121.9 by 101.5 cm.
Provenance
Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago
B.C. Holland Gallery, Inc., Chicago
Dr. Sidney John Shafer, Chicago
Sotheby's, Chicago, November 7, 1999, Lot 639
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale
Catalogue Note
"A great deal has been written about the influence of Pollock, but that is all about the look, the technique which is best known (Pollock had several). Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom of Abstract Expressionism who has a spirit similar to that of Pollock, which is to say that he is out - beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old-fashioned kind of pictorial ambition."
-- B.H. Friedman, “Young American – Painter Norman Bluhm," Artforum, New York, April 1999
Comp: Portrait of Norman Bluhm at work taken by Fred W. McDarrah, circa 1960
The artist using his accidental drip technique.