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HARVEY QUAYTMAN Untitled.
Acrylic, balsa wood and charcoal on ragboard, 1977. 1016x812 mm; 40x32 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, lower right recto.
Ex-collection Nielsen Gallery, Boston, with the label on the frame back; private collection, Massachusetts.
Quaytman (1937-2002) was born in Queens and studied at Syracuse University before finishing his BFA at Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1959. He moved to New York where he began an artistic career that focused on abstraction, rejecting the artistic trends of the time such as Pop Art of Neo-Expressionism, to further explore how abstraction could incorporate texture as well as color. In the 1970s, he found his distinctive style composed of unconventional shapes with bold but simple color palettes.
