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William Beckman b.1942

Study for Self-Portrait; Diana Pregnant - Study for Box Construction (two works)

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estimate: $600–800
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Study for Self-Portrait, 1974
23 h x 15 inches
Signed and dated to lower right edge ‘W Beckman 1974’.

Diane Pregnant, 1969
18 h x 13 w inches
Signed and dated to lower left edge ‘Beckman 69’.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist | Allan Stone Collection, New York
exhibited: A View: The Figure in Drawing, January - February 1977, The University of Bridgeport, Carlson Gallery, CT I February 1978, Genesis Galleries, New York I American Portrait Drawings1 May - 3 August 1980, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
literature: 70's Drawings Make a Statement, Solution, unpaginted illustrates Study for Self-Portrait American Portrait Drawings, Sadik, pg. 187 illustrates Study for Self-Portrait

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The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone

Allan Stone; Allan Stone Gallery, New York, c. 1975. Images courtesy of the Allan Stone Collection


Founded in 1960 by art dealer Allan Stone (1932–2006), the New York gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century. Celebrated for its eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th century, Allan Stone Gallery was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and showed the works of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. Stone also promoted the work of a younger generation of artists that were in conversation with other artists in his collection, working in the mediums of assemblage, collage and new modes of abstraction. In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, Allan Stone also collected and exhibited international folk art, Americana and important decorative arts and industrial design.

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