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Lot 179 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JENNY AND CLEMENT GREENBERG
In the canon of 20th Century art, few figures were as influential as Clement Greenberg. A writer and critic of incomparable influence, Greenberg changed the trajectory of post-war art forever. His belief in the significance of Abstract Expressionism and post-painterly abstraction led him to become an early champion of these artists. Discriminating and decidedly iconoclastic, Greenberg was as infamous as his theories on art.
Greenberg and his wife Jenny Van Horne collected works by artists including Caro, Dzubas, Noland, Smith and Olitski - individuals the couple cherished for their talent and friendship. When Greenberg died in 1994, Van Horne became the guardian of her husband’s legacy, handling the acquisition of his papers by the Getty Research Center and the presentation of a selection of the couple’s private collection to the Portland Art Museum. Van Horne died in 2015 but the Greenbergs’ cultural legacy is ongoing, and stands as a model for future generations of scholars and collectors.
In the canon of 20th Century art, few figures were as influential as Clement Greenberg. A writer and critic of incomparable influence, Greenberg changed the trajectory of post-war art forever. His belief in the significance of Abstract Expressionism and post-painterly abstraction led him to become an early champion of these artists. Discriminating and decidedly iconoclastic, Greenberg was as infamous as his theories on art.
Greenberg and his wife Jenny Van Horne collected works by artists including Caro, Dzubas, Noland, Smith and Olitski - individuals the couple cherished for their talent and friendship. When Greenberg died in 1994, Van Horne became the guardian of her husband’s legacy, handling the acquisition of his papers by the Getty Research Center and the presentation of a selection of the couple’s private collection to the Portland Art Museum. Van Horne died in 2015 but the Greenbergs’ cultural legacy is ongoing, and stands as a model for future generations of scholars and collectors.
Sir Anthony Caro, O.M., R.A. (1924-2013)
Stainless Piece J
Closed24 November 2016
Price Realised
GBP 56,250