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Creator: Herbert Gentry
Offered by: Spanierman Modern

Description
Herbert Gentry (b. 1919 Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2003 Stockholm, Sweden) was a painter whose gesturally abstract works were influenced and shaped by the international career he led, that began with the Harlem Renaissance in which he grew up, took hold in a post-war Parisian art scene, and continued in leading Scandinavian jazz capitals and Manhattan’s famous Chelsea Hotel, where he lived in between stays in Europe.

Gentry’s art is difficulty defined by any established stylistic category. While in Paris, he was taught by Georges Braque, and was profoundly interested in the modernist ideas of Cubism and Expressionism, as well as non-western art. At this time, he became acquainted with members of the CoBrA group who introduced him to ideas of automatism and the concept of the artist as an inherently social being. “Art is mysterious,” Gentry explained in 1991. “It’s about me, it’s about you, it’s about my family, my forefather’s, my mother’s. It’s not only me who’s painting, it’s the people who lived before me, connected with me.”

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Oil on canvas
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	1955
Styles / Movements:	Expressionism, African American
Incollect Reference #:	427212

Dimensions

W.	25.5 in;	H.	31.5 in;
W.	64.77 cm;	H.	80.01 cm;

Message from Seller:

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