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No 403 Hedda Sterne

“I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.” Hedda Sterne, an artist best remembered as the only woman in a famous photograph of a group of Abstract Expressionists known as “The Irascibles”, was … Continue reading

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No 373 Clyfford Still

“No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones.” Clyfford Still, an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, died … Continue reading

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No 336 Jasper Johns

“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.” Jasper Johns, who was born on May 15, 1930.

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