Diebenkorn Ocean Park Paintings

His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the bay area figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Diebenkorn ocean park paintings. Richard diebenkorn april 22 1922 march 30 1993 was an american painter. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the bay area figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s. A highly influential mid century american artist richard diebenkorn is known for his abstract landscape paintings in particular the ocean park series which he exhibited when representing america at the 1978 venice biennale. Ocean park 116 1979 by richard diebenkorn.

Whilst not my personal favourites among his series of works see previous post on his berkeley series the source of this reputation was his ocean park paintings a series begun around 1967 after the artist set up his studio in venice california. Nearly 80 of those works created between 1967 and 1988 are on display at the orange county. Known as the ocean park paintings these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of. Diebenkorn s work is often highly gestural and layered his use of the medium comparable to that of contemporaries like the abstract expressionist willem de kooning an artist he greatly admired.

Diebenkorn s career spanned some four decades and culminated with a 25 year reign as one of america s pre eminent abstract painters. 16 may 2018 sale price 10 953 500 usd. Ocean park is the name of the area of santa monica where diebenkorn had his studio. A comparison of the two shows just how far diebenkorn s abstract vocabulary had evolved throughout his career.

Richard diebenkorn ocean park series. If both his abstract expressionist paintings and his ocean park represent aerial landscapes the former are intuitive and impulsive while the latter are coldly delineated and rational spaces. Richard diebenkorn urban landscape landscape art landscape paintings landscapes marcel duchamp jasper johns bay area figurative movement santa barbara california. Browse artwork and art for sale by richard diebenkorn and discover content biographical information and recently sold works.

In fact the views in the paintings may have been based on the view from the studio window. Estimate 7 000 000 10 000 000 usd. Richard diebenkorn april 22 1922 march 30 1993 was an american painter and printmaker. In the late 1960s he began his extensive series of geometric lyrical abstract paintings.