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Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Norman Bluhm, Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings edited by John Yau.
"Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom of abstract-expressionism who has a spirit similar to that of Pollock, which is to say that he is out--beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old-fashined kind of pictorial ambition." (Frank O'Hara, 1962, as quoted in F. O'Hara, Standing Still and Walking in New York, 1983).
"Bluhm is the only artist working in the idiom of abstract-expressionism who has a spirit similar to that of Pollock, which is to say that he is out--beyond beauty, beyond composition, beyond the old-fashined kind of pictorial ambition." (Frank O'Hara, 1962, as quoted in F. O'Hara, Standing Still and Walking in New York, 1983).