Charcoal on cream wove paper, 1978. Signed, Esteban Vicente, lower center, and signed, Esteban Vicente, and inscribed on the back board. 250x330 mm; 9⅞x13 inches.
Provenance: Collection of Jules Feiffer (born 1929, American cartoonist and author), New York.
Vicente was born in Spain and trained as a sculptor in Madrid. He and his wife Estelle Charney, an American he met in Paris, fled war-torn Spain in 1936 for America, settling initially in Philadelphia, where he worked as an ambassador to the US for the Loyalist Spanish Government, and then from the late 1930s onward in New York.
He was one of the first generation of New York School Abstract Expressionists and associated closely with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. He and his third wife Harriet Peters, whom he married in 1961, first came to the East End of Long Island in 1963, and the next year bought an old farmhouse on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton where they lived for nearly 40 years.
