Milton Resnick
1917-2004
Untitled
1990
18 x 24 1/4 inches (45.7 x 61.6 cm)
Acrylic on paper.
2022.57
Gift of the Milton Resnick and Pat Passloff Foundation, courtesy Van Doren Waxter
Notes
Born in Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, Resnick was associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement that dominated the New York avant-garde of the 1950s. His gestural style in the vein of De Kooning developed into a form of lyrical abstraction characterized by dense, short, calligraphic strokes and heavy impasto. The atmospheric effect of his large, allover compositions called forth comparisons with Monet's late paintings. In the late 1980s, Resnick, who by then was working mostly in acrylic and gouache on paper, began introducing figures in his compositions. Like ghostly apparitions they emerge from the dense brushwork, unmoored, loosely connected to each other through hints at traditional subjects such as the Annunciation or the Crucifixion.
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Signed on verso at center: M. Resnick / Jan 90
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Century Drawings
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