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Biography
American painter who began painting and drawing in 1927, basing his technique on studies of the work of Giorgio de Chirico and Italian Renaissance painters like Paolo Uccelo, Andrea Mantegna and Piero della Francesca. In 1930, he attended the Otis Art Institute for three months and joined the Mural art movement and that of Mexican artists like Diego Rivera. In 1945, he held his first one-man show at the Midtown Galleries in New York. Two years later, he received a Guggenheim grant. In 1959, he took part in Documenta 2, in Kassel and, in 1960, the Venice Biennale. In 1962, he had his first major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His paintings of the 50s were representative of Abstract Expressionism and his works of the 80s anticipate New Image Painting.
Exhibitions
50 Years of Collecting Art at IBM IBM Gallery of Science and Art, USA 01-01-1989 ~ 31-12-1989
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Contemporary Painters in The Berardo Collection Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 28-05-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Los Excesos de la Mente Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain 29-05-2002 ~ 22-09-2002
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Não te Posso Ver Nem Pintado Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 15-09-2008 ~ 10-05-2009
Scull: Portrait of a Collection Acquavella Galleries, Inc., USA 13-04-2010 ~ 28-05-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Los Excesos de la Mente, 2002 Published by Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art, Part II, New york, Tuesday May 2, 1995, lot. 10, 1995 Published by Sotheby´s
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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