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Signed lower left, "M West" and signed verso, "Michael West 1949 nihilism. Abstract Expressionism.

h. 134.94 x w. 102.24 cm

1949

Oil, enamel, and sand on canvas

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Michael Borghi Fine Art, New Jersey
Hollis Target, New York
Magis Collection, Minnesota
Acquired at Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, 2020

Publications

E. Sattanni (ed.), Michael West, Uptown Galleries, Sacramento, 1957
C. McNamara (ed.), Michael West: Painter-Poet, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, New York, 1996
J. Marter (ed.), Women of Abstract Expressionism, Yale UP with Denver Art Museum, New Heaven, 2016, p. 24
E. G. Landau (ed.), Space Poetry: The Action Paintings of Michael West, Hollis Taggart, New York, 2019
Heather James Fine Art, Abstract Expressionist Women, 4th February 2020, pp. 30-31
K. Grovier, "Blinding Light: The 'Great American Painting?'", BBC Culture, 5th October 2020, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201002-blinding-light-the-great-american-painting
Hollis Taggart, in E. Landau (ed.), Michael West's Monochrome Climax, 2021, p. 9, fig. 5
"Restoration Conversations: Women Artists and the Abstract Revolution", The Florentine You Tube, 21st April 2021, [On-line]. Available at: https://youtu.be/tgdWylCx1Uk, 16:16
C. Marcel (ed.), Elles font l'abstraction, May 2021, p. 151
H. Farrell & L. Falcone, "At Home with Christian and Florence Levett: Collecting Art and Women's Abstract Expressionism", The Florentine.net, 5th May 2021, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.theflorentine.net/2021/05/05/at-home-gallery-christian-florence-levett/
C. Marcel (ed.), Women in Abstraction, October 2021
Jackie Wullschläger, "Whitechapel Gallery offers thrilling landmark show of female abstract artists — review", Financial Times, 1st February 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/d5a8c1b5-1695-4970-b9f8-ef4b84ed8ea0
Ellen G. Landau & Joan M. Marter, Abstract Expressionists: The Women, London, 2023, pp. 179-181 (detail), p. 245
"When abstraction was an act of liberation", The Financial Times, London, 1st February 2023, p. 20
White Chapel, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Action, Geste, Peinture : Femmes dans l’abstraction, une histoire mondiale 1940-1970, Bice Curiger, 2023, p. 145

Exhibitions

Michael West Paintings, Uptown Galleries, Sacramento, USA, 1st November 1957 — 15th November 1957
Michael West, Painter Poet, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, New York, USA, 1st August 1996 — 26th October 1996
Space Poetry, The Action Paintings of Michael West, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, USA, 7th November 2019 — 21st December 2019
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 7th February 2023 — 14th May 2023
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, 4th June 2023 — 22nd October 2023
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Kunstalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 2023 — March 2024
FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), Mougins, France, mougins, France, From 21st June 2024 to present day

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Nihilism Michael Corinne West

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