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NORMAN BLUHM   (1921-1999)

Born in 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, Norman Bluhm studied art
at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Bluhm's work has been critically praised and his works are in the collections of many major museums, including, among others, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington,
and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
While his career is marked by notable stylistic shifts as he continually challenged himself to reach new areas of artistic achievements, Norman Bluhm is widely regarded as
one of the leading figures of the second generation of Abstract Expressionism.

ARTWORKS

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BLACK #2

Oil on Canvas

Signed, dated and titled
Norman Bluhm, Black #2, 1954 (on the reverse)
129.5 x 162.5 cm (51 x 64 in)
Executed in 1954

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