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ESTEBAN VICENTE East End.
Color screenprint, circa 1970. 727x533 mm; 26 5/8x21 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 76/90 in pencil, lower margin. A sduperb impression with vibrant colors.
Vicente (1903-2001) 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 the US, 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.
Vicente 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 and his third wife Harriet Peters, whom he married in 1961, first came to the East End of Long Island in 1963, whence the title of the current work, and the next year bought an old farmhouse on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton where they lived for nearly 40 years.
