Beautiful Walter Plate oil board. 32 x 25 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1925 - 1972. Recognized as one of the youngest artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement to achieve major exhibition status, Walter Plate ascended in the early post-war movement. By the mid-1950s Plate's work was being purchased by the Whitney, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. In addition, his solo exhibitions and reviews gained him respect amongst his contemporaries. In his signature work, Plate created flat planes and gestural brushstrokes to compete with one another to create various chaotic energies within a functional order and a surface that is opaque and lucid and colorful, somewhat reminiscent of stained glass windows.In Plate's early 1960s compositions, he transitions from a linear to more concentrated and complex composition, perhaps a testament to his influential friendship with Philip Guston.

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