Biography
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1923
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Born in Kansas City
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Joined up with the US Naval Air Corps during World War II
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Studied at the Art Students League
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1953
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Moved to Paris after a period of travel
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1956
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Co-edited 'Observations of Michel Tapié'
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First solo American show, at the Martha Jackson Gallery
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1958
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Began his 'Eyes of the Dove' series
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1971
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Retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts
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1977
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Received the Life Achievement Award from the Butler Institute of American Art, and the medal of the City of Paris
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1980
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Made Officer of Arts and Letters
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1982
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Received the Humanitarian Award from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped
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1983
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Made Commander of Arts and Letters
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2012
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Died
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Selected solo exhibitions
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1954
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Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris
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1957
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Galerie Stadler, Paris
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1958
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Arthur Tooth and Sons, London
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1964
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Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
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1969
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
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1973
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
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1977
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Sears Bank and Trust Company, Chicago
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1980
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Contemporary Gallery, Dallas
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1983
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Alex Roseberg Gallery, New York
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1987
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Musée Picasso, Antibes
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1994
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Gallery Art Point, Tokyo
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2001
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Galeria Proarta, Zurich
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2003
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2007
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Redfern Gallery, London
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2012
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Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley
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2016
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D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
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Selected group exhibitions
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1954
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Galerie Arnaud, Paris, 'Divergences'
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1956
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Museum of Modern Art, New York ‘Recent Drawings’
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1959
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Recent Developments in Painting II. Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
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1962
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Royal Academy of Arts, London ‘Primitives to Picasso’
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1965
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Redfern Gallery, London ‘Lithographies de l'Atelier Mourlot’
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1977
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ‘Quelques Américains à Paris’
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1982
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Paris Art Center, Paris ‘Les Américains de Paris’
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1987
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Espace Belleville, Paris ‘Abstractions Lyriques: Paris 1945-1955’
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1991
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The Tate Gallery, London ‘The Helena and Kenneth Levy Bequest, Fourteen Twentieth Century Works for the Collection’
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1993
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Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France ‘Collection de la Fondation Maeght: un choix de 150 œuvres’
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1998
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn ‘Masters of Color and Light, Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement’
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2002
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Pinakothek der Moderne, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich ‘Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts’
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2004
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Redfern Gallery, London ‘Modern and Contemporary Prints, Part Two’
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2007
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Redfern Gallery, London ‘A Selection of 20th Century and Contemporary Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture’
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2012
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Christie's, Paris ‘Un Art Autre? Artistes autour de Michel Tapié, une Exposition’
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2014
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Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton ‘Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell’
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2016
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Galeria Proarta, Zurich ‘The Power of Colour’
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Selected Collections
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UK
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British Museum, London
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Ferens Art gallery, Hull
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Gallery Oldham
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Tate
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Ulster Museum
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Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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France
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Musée Picasso, Antibes
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Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Pompidou, Paris
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Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
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Germany
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Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
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Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover
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The Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
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Israel
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The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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Japan
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
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The National Museum of Art, Osaka
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The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
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The Museum of Modern Art, Toyoma
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Netherlands
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The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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United States
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UB Anderson Gallery and the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
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Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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The Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford
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The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution [an extensive collection of the artist’s works from the 1950s to the 70s], the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Gallery, Washington DC
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