Color pigment and pastel with wash on thick wove paper, 1982. 965x1270 mm; 38x50 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed "Taos, New Mexico" in pencil, lower right.
Ex-collection: Randall Galleries, New York; private Pennslyvania collection.
The artist's Taos Series was exhibited first at Randall Galleries, New York, October 19 - November 5, 1983. Ed Clark has been an international figure in post-war abstract painting . Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1946 to 1951, and in 1952 at the Academy de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he lived until 1958. George Sugarman then persuaded him to return to New York to help found the Brata Gallery with Ronald Bladen, Al Held and others. Clark showed there until 1966, when he returned to France for three more years. He has acknowledged the influence of the paintings of Nicolas de Stael and the music of Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, and later the gestural abstractions of Hans Hartung and Pierre Soulages. He has exhibited widely in New York, including the 1973 Whitney Biennial, and in Paris, Washington DC, and Japan.
