CLEMENT GREENBERG (AMERICAN 1909-1994)

CLEMENT GREENBERG (AMERICAN 1909-1994)
Bay, 1954
watercolor on paper
30 x 45.5 cm (11 3/4 x 17 7/8 in.)
framed dimensions: 43.5 x 58 cm (17 1/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
signed lower right, dedicated lower right "For Bob & Ted / from Clem 6 VI 54"

PROVENANCE
Gift of the artist to the Abstract-Expressionist artist Theodoros Stamos
Thence by descent in the family

LOT NOTES
The current work is a rare painting by the seminal art critic of the Abstract Expressionist and New York School, Clement Greenberg. Especially interesting, is that it was a gift from Greenberg to another important figure in the history of Abstract Expressionism, and one of its original proponents, Theodoros Stamos.

Keywords: Abstract Expressionism, Art Critic, Modern Art, Modernist painting

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