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Cleve GrayAfter Egypt1995
1995
$40,000
£30,393.10
€35,067.93
CA$56,721.22
A$61,131.21
CHF 32,685.12
MX$726,771.42
NOK 410,941.44
SEK 375,576.69
DKK 262,032.41
About the Item
oil on canvas
Cleve Gray is a painter admired for his large-scale, vividly colorful, and lyrically gestural abstract compositions. He achieved his greatest critical recognition in the late 1960s and ‘70s after working for many years in a comparatively conservative late-Cubist style. Inspired in the ‘60s by artists like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and Helen Frankenthaler, Gray began to produce large paintings using a variety of application methods- pouring, staining, sponging, and other non-traditional techniques- to create compositions combining expanses of pure color and spontaneous calligraphic gestures.
In 1972 and ’73 he produced Threnody, a suite of 14 paintings, each measuring 20 feet by 20 feet, dedicated to the dead on both sides of the Vietnam War. The series was commissioned by the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, part of the State University of New York, and is considered one of the largest groups of abstract paintings created for a specific public space.
Cleve Gray has work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; among others.
- Creator:Cleve Gray (1918-2004, American)
- Creation Year:1995
- Dimensions:Height: 35.25 in (89.54 cm)Width: 56.25 in (142.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Phoenix, AZ
- Reference Number:Seller: 2023101611stDibs: LU13717472602
Cleve Gray
Cleve Gray was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. He was born on September 22, 1918, in New York. His works are displayed in various museums including, The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institute, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Phillips Collection. Gray died on December 8, 2004, in Hartford.
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