Painting by Jean-Pierre Pincemin, 1977.-------------------------------------Important note: This work has a plexiglas front now, so there is no risk in shipping that a glass front might break and damage the work.-----------------------------------
41.75 inches by 29.75 inches with frame, 35.5 inches by 27 inches without frame

Christies Provenance, Orrin Riley Provenance, David Killen Gallery(purchase, under the supervision of the Attorney General, State of New York, and Executors of Orrin Riley).

Davids notes: A rare oil on paper painting by Jean-Pierre Pincemin, a French abstract artist and printmaker(1944-2005) who died unexpectedly at age 61. This work was originally consigned to auction at Christies East Auction House approximately 30 to 40 years ago, in NYC, then framing glass broke, and pieces of the glass were stuck to the image. At this point it must have been moved to Orrin Riley Restoration Studio for repair. David Killen Gallery believes at this point Christies, working with the consignors, reached an insurance settlement, where the consignors would get money from the insurance company and the new owners would be the insurance company. This would explain why it was never picked up from Orrin Riley restoration. The insurance company probably abandoned the work, as is often the case in these situations .Once the executors of the Orrin Riley Storage group began working with the Attorney Generals office, they were instructed to take 10 years to locate all owners of items left for restoration. It would have been easy to contact Christies or the insurance company and return the work but the fact that it was not returned to Christies or the insurance company suggests that Christies told Orrin Riley it was now the property of the insurance company, and the insurance company didn't want a damaged work of art, or to pay for the work of art to be repaired. Insurance companies often abandon works of art after insurance settlements if the cost of repair is deemed greater than the value of the work itself. That would explain why the work has an Orrin Riley release date sticker of 1992, yet the work was never performed or completed or even begun. David Killen Gallery bought the contents of the Orrin Riley Restoration studio, in 2018 after a ten year search of customers who might have left items at Orrin Riley for repair. The Attorney General for the State of New York declared any work thereafter is the sole property of the purchaser (David Killen Gallery) and the customer who left the item for repair for 10 years or more has no more legal claim to the property. After purchasing the work, David Killen Gallery sent the work to Lawrence Castagna, formerly of Orrin Riley restoration, now located in East Hampton, and he performed the necessary separation of the broken glass and the oil paint this year. His sticker is also on the back. The painting is now in it's original state.

Orrin Reilly was the first restorer hired by the Guggenheim Museum and ran their restoration department for the first 20 years of the Guggenheims existence. After going out on his own and opening a private restoration studio, museums and auction houses from around the world sought out his services and expertise in his NYC restoration studio. When he died after 10 years the executors sold the remaining 200 items that could not be connected to the original clients. David Killen Gallery made worldwide headlines when they discovered six Willem De Kooning paintings in the Orrin Riley Storage group of 200 items(put david killen gallery and Willlem de Kooning into any search engine for over 200 articles worldwide on the discovery).

In June of 2021, Cornette de Saint-Cyr in Brussels auctioned off a red and white work but slightly larger (61.75 inches x 61,75 inches) titled Carres Colles for 99,000.00 USD(lot 334, includes buyers premium).

Jean-Pierre Pincemin
(Source: Wiki)Jean-Pierre Edmond Charles Pincemin was born on April 7, 1944 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and died May 16, 2005 in Arcueil. He was a painter, engraver, and sculptor.

His initial training led him to work as a turner in the precision mechanical industry. Jean-Pierre Pincemin discovered painting through his frequent visits to the Louvre in Paris and decided to become an art critic in the mid -1960s.

The gallery owner Jean Fournier, who had a house near his parents', encouraged him to paint. Pincemin then made his first sculptures and paintings. Between 1962 and 1966, he expanded from lyrical abstraction to action painting.

In 1969, he organized with Marcel Alocco and Claude Viallat an exhibition: The Painting in Question at the Special School of Architecture in Paris. Besides Marcel Alocco and Pincemin, Daniel Dezeuze , Noel Dolla , Bernard Pages , Patrick Saytour and Claude Viallat participated in this exhibition, the first expression of the Supports/Surfaces movement, which Pincemin joined in 1971.

Estimated cost of shipping to Paris: 1500.00 USD.

Good condition overall, signed by the artist lower right in pencil and dated 1977.There are strokes of white paint around the margins, they are original to the work.