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Bernard Cohen

Style 1
1963
Oil on canvas
36 x 36 ins (91.4 x 91.4 cms)

signed, inscribed & dated 1963 verso

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Provenance:

Private collection, purchased directly from the artist.

Bernard Cohen came to prominence in the 1960s and produced paintings that were idiosyncratic and deliberately contrasting in style.

Rather than drawing inspiration from the world around him, Cohen focuses on the very process of painting itself. His rich layers of paint serve to emphasise the canvas surface, as well as the method of creation. Style 1 is cleaner and more loosely painted than his later compositions but even here the artist's emphatically physical application of paint is evident: the pigments are dripped and dotted onto the canvas in a manner reminiscent of Pollock. These lines of pure colour interlace to create a swirling, dancing composition.

Exhibited:

Waddington Galleries, London, 1963.

Museé de Strasbourg, Strasbourg.

City of Bradford Art Gallery, Bradford, 1965.

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