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Home / Prints and Multiples / British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance
British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance
British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance

British Artist Bernard Cohen, Signed/N Lithograph, 1965, Framed. Superb Provenance

Bernard Cohen

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Framed limited print on paper, Abstract Expressionist, signed Bernard Cohen (Bernard Cohen, British, b. 1933), dated lower right 1965, numbered 47/75 IV. Verso features label from Houston's prestigious Dubose Gallery, where artist Vera Halbrecht acquired the work.
overall: 23"high by 30.5" wide
Framed.
 
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Bernard Cohen Biography: After studying in London at St Martin's School of Art (1950–51) and the Slade School of Fine Art (1951–4), he went to Paris (1954–6). From the early 1960s he began producing paintings that were idiosyncratic and deliberately disparate in style. The intertwined, meandering lines in a painting such as Knot (1962; Belfast, Ulster Mus.) soon began to be rendered as a dizzying profusion with the aid of an airbrush in works such as Untitled Diamond (1964; Minneapolis, MN, Walker A. Cent.); the latter is one of a group of works in which strips of masking tape were removed to reveal the underpainting beneath. The consistent development of procedures arising from a concern with process (which had its roots in both the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock and the sense of ritual characteristic of Cohen's Orthodox Jewish upbringing) was the link uniting paintings of otherwise bewilderingly varied appearance.

In the mid 1970s Cohen exchanged his earlier preferences for broad expanses of flat colour, spontaneously applied paint and soft focus, for a meticulous technique and a dense layering of patterns and motifs. In these paintings, which swarm vertiginously with textures, colours, stencilled and drawn shapes, Cohen found a way of relating his obsession with the procedures of painting to a range of social rituals, producing an art as complex in formal terms as in its metaphorical implications.

This work has fine provenance as it was acquired from the Estate of Vera Habrecht Simons, a true Renaissance woman, who, after escaping the Holocaust, settled in Texas and became an artist and scientist.(In addition to having exhibited alongside Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Andy Warhol, Theodoros Stamos and Christo, she became a gas balloon pilot, and a widely respected aeronautical expert.)

This rare work has not been examined outside of its original mid century frame, to preserve provenance, but there is some overall age toning, especially around the edges. (see photograph #2;. First image is stock.) Otherwise a good, strong impression with superb provenance.

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