Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 537

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RICHARD DIEBENKORN
Card Game.

Etching and soft-ground etching, 1981. 278x327 mm; 11x13 inches, full margins. Initialed, dated and numbered 35/35 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, with the blind stamp lower right. A very good impression.

Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) adopted Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s/early 1950s, influenced by Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still. In the 1960s, Diebenkorn blended Abstract Expressionism with an accute appreciation of the figural and color work of Henri Matisse. He developed his own distinct abstract stylein this way, more geometric and less gestural than his earlier work, which is most readily seen in the Ocean Park series that he began in 1967 and developed over the next 25 years.