Robert Natkin painting in the "Bath Apollo" style. Natkin strted to paint this style beginning in the 1960s and continued to paint it for close to 50 years. Sometimes it was in its pure form, and sometimes, like in this example, he combined the Apollo type with other styles. The Bath type is more atmospheric and tends to be in purely blended colors with no solid forms. The original bath paintings were done in muted colors and tend to not have any intense colors in them such as this one does. Natkin began to paint them after a visit to England, during which he was influenced by the foggy weather which left everything shrouded in softer muted, blended colors. Frame dimensions are ( 41.25" W x 34 " H - The actual painting is 37" W x 29.5" H. If you look closely you will notice that throughout much of the painting there are ripples in the paper. Due to the uniformity of the ripples, and the way that they enhance the three-dimensionality of the painting, I believe that they are deliberate. Robert Natkin (1930-1910) was an American abstract painter. His large-scale, dynamic paintings were layered with bright colors and playful, gestural marks. Deeply influenced by the work of Willem de Kooning and Paul Klee, his practice is characterized by a strong sense of painterly vitality and often incorporated the use of netting and stencils to create subtle patterned effects. "You need to look at a painting with the tongue of your eye," Natkin charmingly said. At different times in his career, he was associated with the Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field, and Abstract Expressionist movements, and rose to prominence in the late 1960s and 1970s. He had a retrospective solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in San Francisco and was a part of the 1960 "Young America" exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Natkin died on April 20, 2010, in Danbury, CT at the age of 79. Today, his work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others. Buyer's Premium25%