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Richard Diebenkorn is among the small number of American artists to have achieved greatness. Internationally acclaimed, he was recognized in the late 1940s as an important abstract expressionist painter and has continued to create works -- in different modes but with a clear, personal voice -- that astound in their intricate interplay between formal rigor and luminous, sensual color.This first full-scale monograph presents a rich selection of the artist's oeuvre, much of which has never before been reproduced outside of exhibition catalogs or in large format and full color. Once considered primarily a "western" painter, Dieben-korm has long shed that distinction, although he works, as he has for most of his life, in California.
For the past twenty years he has been producing a series of large abstract paintings- for which he is today perhaps most well known- each of which is numbered and titled Ocean Park after the beachside community where he works. Reminiscent of Matisse in color and Mondrian in… Read More
