Robert Natkin
Untitled (Black)
1979

Name: Untitled (Black)
Brand: Robert Natkin
Price: 1500 USD
Availability: InStock

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Artist: Robert Natkin Title: Untitled, (Black) Year: 1979 Artist Dates: 1930-2010 Medium: lithography Paper: BFK Rives Dimensions: Image -26.5 x 36.25 inches (Sheet – 29.5 x 39.5 inches) Edition Size: 75; Paper Type: cream Rives BFK Publisher: Styria Studios Printer: Styria Studios This very large lithograph is by Robert Natkin (1930-2010). It is on BFK Rives paper. It is numbered, signed and dated in the lower left, “64/75, Natkin, 1979”. Beneath the numbers is the blindstamp of Styria Studios. There is another small blindstamp in the lower right corner. The print is in very good condition. There are three archival hinges on the top margin and a bit of very faint rippling at the top of the top margin. Otherwise, it is in excellent condition. I will ship the print rolled in a heavyweight tube keeping the archival hinges intact. Robert Natkin (November 7, 1930 – April 20, 2010) was an American born abstract painter whose work is associated with Abstract expressionism, Color field painting, and Lyrical Abstraction. He was born in Chicago, and from the early 1950s he created paintings which are represented in the permanent collections of major museums as well as in corporate and private collections. His paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. His work has been exhibited in leading galleries in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Natkin layered bright acrylic colors and forms on large-scale canvases, exuding the playfulness of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky with the palettes of Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard. He used cloths and netting as stencils to achieve textures described by John Russell of The New York Times in 1978 as having a “worked-over look that suggests that the painting has been traversed over and over by a very small truck that has just had its tires retreaded.” His paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The art critics Sister Wendy Beckett and Peter Fuller both championed his work. (Source: New York Times) There is further extensive biographical information about Robert Natkin on the internet.

Creator:

Robert Natkin (1930-2010, American)

Creation Year:

1979

Dimensions:

Height: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)Width: 39.5 in (100.33 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)

Medium:

Paper,Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Abstract Expressionist

Period:

1970-1979

Condition:

The print is in very good condition. There are three archival hinges on the top margin and very faint rippling at the top of the top margin. Otherwise, it is in excellent condition. I will ship the print rolled in a tube keeping the hinges intact.

Gallery Location:

San Francisco, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: PM05102020-11stDibs: LU66636151102

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Robert Natkin

Robert Natkin was born in Chicago on November 7, 1930 into a large family of Russian Jewish immigrants. In 1945 the family moved to Tennessee though soon returned to Chicago where Natkin would attend the Art Institute of Chicago (1948-1952). The museum’s collection of Post-Impressionist paintings, especially those of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse and the whimsical abstractions of Paul Klee, were significant influences on the young artist. Natkin’s influences outside the art world included frequent trips to the Field Museum of Natural History where he was exposed to stylized Native American and Peruvian textiles. Introduced to Abstract-Expressionism in New York in 1952, Natkin was especially drawn to the works of Willem de Kooning who’s agitated marks he began to emulate though after returning to Chicago in 1953 he abandoned ties to action painting and began to form what would become his familiar color field abstraction motif. In 1957 Natkin, now married to fellow artist Judith Dolnick, opened the Wells Street Gallery which showed the works of like-minded Chicago artists including sculptor John Chamberlain and photographer Aaron Siskind as well as New York artists they admired. Due to limited patronage however this was a short-lived venture and, seeking greater opportunities, the couple moved to New York in 1959. Natkin continued to develop bold bright fields of color and texture in his paintings finding success among the Poindexter Galleries stable of up-and-coming artists. Immersed in New York’s dynamic art scene through the 1960s and 70s, Natkin continued to evolve his style through his Apollo series, Field Mouse series, and Intimate Lighting series which includes Remembrance is the Secret of Redemption, Forgetfulness Leads to Exile. Other series followed in a long and successful career. Natkin died in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 20, 2010. Robert Natkin has been the subject of numerous one-man exhibitions and has been included in many more group exhibitions. His work is in the permanent collections of dozens of national and international museums including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Additionally Natkin’s colossal 20 x 42 foot mural, executed in 1992, can be seen in the lobby of New York’s Rockefeller Center.