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Pear

Creator: Robert M. Kulicke
Offered by: Brock & Co.

Description
ROBERT KULICKE (1924-2007)
Pear, 1964
Pastel on silk mounted on paperboard
7 ¼ x 7 inches (sight)
Signed and dated at upper center: Kulicke 64
Contemporary painted wood frame

Born in Philadelphia in 1924, Robert M. Kulicke attended the Tyler School of Art (Temple University) and the Philadelphia Museum School. In 1949, he studied in Paris with Fernand Léger at the Academie Leger, Paris. Davis & Langdale Company exclusively represented the work of Robert M. Kulicke beginning in 1974 and continues to represent the estate of the artist.

Robert M. Kulicke primarily painted still lifes, choosing a jar of olives, a bouquet of flowers and, his signature subject, the pear as his subjects. Intimate in scale, each painting is contained in a frame that was hand-made by Kulicke, based on designs found throughout framing history.

In 1951, he opened Kulicke Frames in New York City and socialized with Abstract Expressionist painters including Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. They encouraged him to design thin frames that would not distract from their paintings.

Since 1974 Kulicke had an annual exhibition at the Davis & Langdale Company. He also had exhibitions at Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University (1978), John F. Warren, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Color of Money: Robert Kulicke’s Dollar Bill Paintings, 1988), Columbia Museums of Art and Science, South Carolina (1983), and Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco (1991, 1994) and others.

In 1988 Kulicke was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy of Design.

More Information

Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Pastel on silk mounted on paperboard
Condition:	Excellent.
Creation Date:	1964
Styles / Movements:	Impressionism, Realism, Other
Incollect Reference #:	158799