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Paul Resika Art

American, b. 1928
Paul Resika (b.1928-) is an abstract figurative and landscape painter whose paintings are meditations on nature. Notable for their geometric forms placed against a mixed palette of high-keyed and subdued color, Resika's paintings create striking oppositions between form, color, and light. Like the paintings of Bonnard, Resika's work encapsulates the hidden power of nature with its color and forms. Resika himself states that he strives to capture "a feeling for nature but without nature." His work blends the figurative with the abstract in such a way that one senses Resika's response to both his physical and interior worlds. Born in New York City, Resika studied with Hans Hofmann in the 1940s and received his first show at age nineteen, at New York's George Dix Gallery in 1948. He was part of what is now considered the second generation of the New York School—artists who applied abstract expressionist techniques, such as the emphasis on gesture and emotional immediacy to the depiction of representational subject matter. During the 1950s, Resika traveled in Europe and began developing the series of recurring pared-down, quasi-abstract motifs: piers and harbors, farmhouses, floral still lifes, female figures. The tradition of French modernist painting, specifically the work of Pierre Bonnard and the French Fauvist painters Matisse and Derain, is strongly evinced in his work. Currently Resika spends winters in New York City, summers i n Provincetown, Massachusetts, and one month each spring in southern France. Each locale and its accompanying season informs his work and plays an important role in his choice of subject matter and palette. Resika was elected to the National Academy Design in 1976 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994. He has exhibited both in the United States and abroad. His works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
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Untitled
By Paul Resika
Located in Provincetown, MA
Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928. He began taking painting lessons at age nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother. At twelve years old, he began studying w...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Paul Resika Art

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Paper, Oil

Geraniums
By Paul Resika
Located in Provincetown, MA
Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928. He began taking painting lessons at age nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother. At twelve years old, he began studying w...
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Late 20th Century Paul Resika Art

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Oil

Pine and Spencer Mountain
By Paul Resika
Located in Provincetown, MA
Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928. He began taking painting lessons at age nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother. At twelve years old, he began studying w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paul Resika Art

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Oil, Canvas

The Sound of the Shell
By Paul Resika
Located in Provincetown, MA
Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928. He began taking painting lessons at age nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother. At twelve years old, he began studying w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paul Resika Art

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Oil

Skowhegan-Wesserunsett
By Paul Resika
Located in New York, NY
Paul Resika Skowhegan-Wesserunsett, 1976 Oil on board painting 6 × 9 1/4 × 1/2 inches Hand-signed by artist, Signed 'Resika' lower left, also signed, title...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Paul Resika Art

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Oil

Maison Basse
By Paul Resika
Located in Lawrence, NY
Exhibited: Graham-Shay Gallery One of the last living students of Hans Hoffmann, Paul Resika was destined for fame early on: He had his first solo show ...
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1980s Expressionist Paul Resika Art

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Woman Cat Tree
By Paul Resika
Located in Lawrence, NY
OIl pastel on paper Paul Resika (b. 1928, New York, New York) is best known for his paintings of iconic Provincetown forms. "Resika is recognized for the ...
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Early 2000s Post-Modern Paul Resika Art

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Purple and Black
By Paul Resika
Located in Provincetown, MA
Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928. He began taking painting lessons at age nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother. At twelve years old, he began studying w...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Paul Resika Art

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Ink, Watercolor

PIER AND BOAT
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Resika, Paul (American, born 1928). PIER AND BOAT. Aquatint, not dated. Edition of 30. Signed in pencil and numbered 24/30. 10 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches, framed to 19 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches. ...
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Mid-20th Century Paul Resika Art

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Aquatint

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