Posts tagged American Abstraction
A gift to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
A gift to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Venice, Italy--The Estate of Jack Tworkov is pleased to announce a gift of a major painting to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy. The painting, titled "Portrait of Z. Sharkey," is an exceptional example of Tworkov's abstract figuration which dominated the artist's oeuvre during the late 1940s. The gift was made by Hermine Ford and Helen Tworkov, daughters of Jack Tworkov, with the assistance of Jason Andrew and Otto and Kirstin Hubner of the American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich.

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NewsjasonAbstract Expressionism, American Abstraction, Carstairs Gallery, Claude Monet, figure, Irving Sandler, Jack Tworkov, Janice Biala, Knoedler & Co, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Willem de Kooning, women
TWRKV Featured in “Abstraction Américaine” at Fondation Fernet-Branca, France
TWRKV Featured in “Abstraction Américaine” at Fondation Fernet-Branca, France

Abstraction Américaine opened at the Fondation Fernet-Branca on June 2. Organized by guest curator by Otto Hübner with the assistance of his wife, Kirstin Hübner, and Francesca Pollock, the exhibition brings together signature works of seven 20th-Century American artists, major masters of abstraction, some relatively unknown to the general public in Europe: Hans Hofmann (1880‐1966), Jack Tworkov (1900‐1982), Charles Pollock (1902‐1988), Adolph Gottlieb (1903‐1974), David Smith (1906‐1965), Richard Pousette‐Dart (1916‐1992) and Sam Francis (1923‐1994). The exhibition continues through September 22. A symposium, organized by Otto Hübner was held on June 12 and featured representatives from each artist’s estate. Dr. Philip Rylands, Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, moderated the symposium.

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Events, Exhibitions, NewsjasonAbstract Expressionism, Adolph Gottlieb, American Abstraction, American Contemporary Gallery, Charles Pollock, David Smith, Foundation Fernet Branca, France, Hans Hofmann, Jack Tworkov, New York School, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Rauchenberg, Saint-Louis, Sam Francis