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Over

Golden Gatethe

1960-1990

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Exposition Vente Espace TajanSelling Exhibition 37 rue des Mathurins 75008 Paris T. +33 1 53 30 30 30

Du 20 au 28 octobre 2016 / October 20-28, 2016

Vernissage jeudi 20 octobre jusqu’à 22h Lundi-vendredi 10h-18h Samedi et dimanche 11h-18h

Opening reception until 10pm on Thursday, October 20 Monday to Friday 10am-6pm Saturday & Sunday 11am-6pm

Contact Julie Ralli +33 1 53 30 30 55 - [email protected]

Robert ARNESON - Joan BROWN - Bruce CONNER - Roy DE FOREST

Peter SAUL - Mark di SUVERO - Wayne THIEBAUD - William T. WILEY

1960-1990OVER THE GOLDEN GATE

Prix sur demande / Prices available upon request

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OVER THE GOLDEN GATESPOTLIGHT ON THE ARTISTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 1960-1990

As early as 2004, we initiated and hosted regularly at Tajan the program “The Artist and his Supporters”. This program of unique events brought together many of those creating, defending and promoting innovative art and design: artists, designers, curators, collectors, gallerists and journalists. This early program has now evolved and greatly developed leading to the creation of a separate entity and brand,

Through artist focused and thematic exhibitions presented several times a year, Tajan ArtStudio has now become a creative trendsetter. It is now a rich source to discover in Paris local and international new, emerging talent and rediscover overlooked or forgotten artistic movements and individual artists. Our goal is to share with the broadest public art, culture and our passion for innovation and creativity. In assuming this “trendsetter” role, we had the honor to present the contemporary creations of young artists and designers such as Adrian Ghenie, Matthias Weischer, Eva Nielsen, Joseph Walsh and Il Hoon Roh, as well as mature ones such as François Rouan, Geta Bratescu and Ion Grigorescu.

For the October 2016 edition, we are deeply honored to present for the first time in Paris, Over the Golden Gate, an important exhibition featuring leading artists active in San Francisco and the Bay Area from 1960 to 1990 such as Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, Mark di Suvero, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley.

At Tajan ArtStudio, our selected artists, guest speakers and the public have the opportunity to share special moments and exchange interesting, challenging discussions. It is with great pleasure that we invite you all to come see this selling exhibition and to follow all our upcoming, exciting events.

Rodica Seward

Depuis 2004, Tajan présente le programme « L’Artiste et ceux qui le soutiennent ». Celui-ci a pour vocation de créer des évènements uniques, militant pour la défense et la promotion de la création artistique en fédérant artistes, designers, prescripteurs, collectionneurs, galeristes et journalistes. L’évolution et le développement grandissant de cette activité nous a naturellement amené à créer une entité à part entière, sous le nom de

En proposant plusieurs fois par an des focus sur des talents émergents, dans le cadre d’expositions thématiques, Tajan ArtStudio se positionne comme un véritable prescripteur. Ainsi, lieu d’inspiration et vivier d’artistes, locaux ou internationaux, Tajan ArtStudio vous invite également à (re)découvrir de nouveaux mouvements artistiques, d’autres plus confidentiels ou encore oubliés. À travers ArtStudio, prescripteur de tendances, nous souhaitons partager avec le plus grand nombre l’art, la culture et notre passion pour la créativité. Nous avons ainsi eu l’honneur de présenter la nouvelle création contemporaine avec des talents émergents tels qu’Adrian Ghenie, Matthias Weischer, Eva Nielsen, Joseph Walsh et Il Hoon Roh, mais aussi des artistes plus connus comme François Rouan, Geta Bratescu et Ion Grigorescu.

Pour cette édition d’octobre 2016, nous avons le plaisir de présenter, pour la première fois à Paris, Over the Golden Gate, une importante exposition consacrée aux artistes majeurs, actifs dans la baie de San Francisco entre 1960 et 1990. Parmi eux, Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, Mark di Suvero, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley.

Les artistes sélectionnés, les acteurs du marché et le public ont la chance de partager dans le cadre de Tajan ArtStudio, un moment privilégié de convivialité, de discussion, de confrontation et d’échanges. C’est avec plaisir que nous vous invitons tous à découvrir notre exposition et à suivre nos futurs évènements Tajan ArtStudio.

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From the point of view of art history the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s and early 1960s was dominated by three artists: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elmer Bischoff, three painters known as the founders of Bay Area Figuration. These three, while vital and hugely influential figures in the small world that was San Francisco’s art scene at that time, were soon succeeded by a group of younger artists that included Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T Wiley. Most began their careers under the influence of Bay Area Figuration: Brown, Conner, De Forest, Saul, Thiebaud, and Wiley all studied at the CSFA (now San Francisco Art Institute) where both Bischoff and Diebenkorn were on the faculty. In addition, nearly all were associated with the Funk movement (all but Thiebaud were included in Peter Selz’s seminal Funk exhibition at Berkeley in 1967). And in each case their bonds were more firmly established through teaching together, and regularly exhibiting together, experiences that helped establish a creative vortex that, emanating equally from the San Francisco Art Institute, U.C Berkeley and agricultural U.C. Davis some 70 miles northeast of the city, established the Bay Area as a creatively diverse environment. By the mid-seventies artists in the Bay Area not only competed critically with artists on the East Coast, but internationally as well.

The present exhibition is an overview of the work of these artists and this phenomenon. The exhibition begins with the examples of their work from the early 1960s when in most cases they were just developing as artists. It is notable that their styles are already divergent, even idiosyncratic, and in fact, throughout their careers their chosen medium was often as varied as their styles and their subjects. Unlike the Bay Area Figurative artists it wasn’t a common art making approach that bound them and yet they nonetheless coalesced as an artistic force at once competitive and supportive. Arneson, De Forest, Thiebaud, and Wiley taught together at Davis starting in the early 1960s, and Arneson, Brown, De Forest, Saul, and Wiley shared long-term gallery representation both in San Francisco and in New York, both important factors in establishing and sustaining their personal and professional relationships that lasted lifetimes.

George Adams

Du point de vue de l’histoire de l’art, la baie de San Francisco, à la fin des années 50 et au début des années 60, était dominée par trois artistes: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, et Elmer Bischoff, reconnus comme les fondateurs de la Bay Area Figuration. Figures déterminantes et particulièrement influentes dans le microcosme artistique de San Francisco de l’époque, ils ont vite été rejoints par un groupe de jeunes artistes dont Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Peter Saul, Wayne Thiebaud et William T. Wiley. Ils ont pour la plupart commencé leur carrière sous l’influence de la Bay Area Figuration. Brown, Conner, De Forest, Saul, Thiebaud et Wiley ont tous étudié à la CSFA (aujourd’hui San Francisco Art Institute) où Bischoff et Diebenkorn étaient professeurs. En outre, la majorité d’entre eux a été associée au mouvement Funk (hormis Thiebaud, tous faisaient partie de Funk, exposition phare de Peter Selz à Berkeley en 1967). Ces expositions collectives et le fait d’enseigner ensemble sont autant d’expériences qui ont renforcé leurs liens et entraîné un tourbillon créatif émanant à la fois du San Francisco Art Institute, de UC Berkeley, et de UC Davis. La Bay Area s’est alors imposée en tant que lieu de création diversiforme. A partir des années 70, les artistes de la Bay Area concurrençaient sérieusement ceux de la côte Est, et s’affirmaient également à l’international.

Vue d’ensemble de ce mouvement, cette exposition présente notamment des œuvres du début des années 60, lorsque ces artistes n’étaient encore qu’à l’aube de leur carrière. Leurs styles étaient déjà divergents, et tout au long de leur carrière, leurs techniques seront aussi variées que leurs styles et leurs sujets. Contrairement aux artistes de la Bay Area Figuration, ce n’est pas une approche commune de création qui les liait, néanmoins, ils étaient unis par une force artistique à la fois compétitive et solidaire. Tandis qu’Arneson, De Forest, Thiebaud et Wiley enseignaient ensemble à UC Davis dès le début des années 60, Arneson, Brown, De Forest, Saul, et Wiley partageaient leurs expositions en galerie à San Francisco et à New York, deux facteurs qui permettront ainsi à tous ces artistes de maintenir des liens pérennes.

ROBERT ARNESON, JOAN BROWN, BRUCE CONNER, ROY DE FOREST, MARK DI SUVERO, PETER SAUL, WAYNE THIEBAUD, WILLIAM T. WILEYThe San Francisco Bay Area from the Sixties into the Nineties

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Since the Gold Rush, northern California has been the land of visionary progressives and pioneers who flouted norms to forge new paths. This penchant towards the “disruptive” was as true in 1848 as it is today in Silicon Valley. The pattern of transgression and innovation also applies to a group of painters and sculptors born mostly in the 1930s who began their careers in the Bay Area during the apex of Abstract Expressionism and the Beat Era. With their geographic proximity in northern California (along the I-80 corridor) and similar professional trajectories, Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Mark di Suvero, Peter Saul, Wayne Thiebaud, and Willliam T. Wiley shared ideas about art that were iconoclastic, irreverent, and deadly serious. Their sharp intellects, risk-taking, and defiance of convention played a significant role in establishing a lively art scene in the region.

As representatives of their time, the artists in this exhibition created work that filled the gap between art and life (pace / with respect to Robert Rauschenberg). Eschewing high-minded themes, their subjects derived from every life. Arneson’s, Brown’s, and Saul’s self portraits and representations of family and friends; Conner’s abstract inkblot drawings; De Forest’s whimsical animal kingdoms, and Thiebaud’s paintings were based on personal life and imagination, not highfalutin theories. Sources such as commercial illustration, comic books, cartoons, and “outsider” art, as well as so-called primitive and children’s art informed their work, as much as their respect for the “high priests” of modernism, Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso. Boundaries between “high” and “low” disappeared. As evinced in Arneson’s punning plays on clay, Brown’s and De Forest’s mixed-media constructions, and Brown’s, Conner’s, De Forest’s, di Suvero’s, and Wiley’s use of non-art, found materials, several of the group shared a disregard for conventional media and methods. Arneson broke boundaries between “art” and “craft,” employing clay as a vehicle for sculpture. Conner found photography and film a means for visual poetry, repurposing them from largely documentary to aesthetic media. Distinctions were irrelevant between works that were beautiful, sensuous, and deserving of the title “ART” and those that were ugly. Ironic and subversive, Arneson’s, Saul’s, and Wiley’s witty diatribes were rooted in everything and everyone from the art world to society and politics. Visual and verbal puns, particularly when administered by the aforementioned trio, were typical fare, and humor, irreverence, and irony sweetened difficult topics. With a conflation of dadaist anarchy, surrealist imagination, and their shared northern California “whatever-you-will” philosophy, the artists opened doors to greater appreciation for pluralism in American art.

The art and career of Joan Brown are testimony to the new freedom that pervaded the northern California art scene. While still a student of Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn at the California School of Fine Arts in the mid 1950s, Brown exhibited at the 6 Gallery and Spatsa Gallery, two of the more important spaces in San Francisco. By 1959, she had solo exhibitions at the Staempfli Gallery in New York, Batman Gallery in San Francisco, and the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. In the 1960s she produced thickly impastoed still lifes and family portraits, ungainly black-and-white collages, and sculptures from found materials. She contributed a painted, taxidermied fur rat to the groundbreaking Funk exhibition in Berkeley in 1967. In the 1970s, influenced by a serious study of Asian art, Brown incoporated bright colors, wild patterns, and flatter surfaces and perspective in her paintings. Her cut-out sculptures were made of paint, cardboard, and found materials. As was somewhat unusual for women at the time, she all the while enjoyed a successful career as a teacher, serving as a guest artist and professor at nearly all the major art schools and universities in northern California. Her life, both bohemian and conventional, catalyzed greater acceptance of artists and art processes.

In the late 1950s in San Francisco, Bruce Conner founded an informal organization called the “Rat Bastard Protective Association,” an artistic and literary club that derived its iconoclastic title from the names of the Scavengers Protective Society (that is, the garbage collectors of the city) and the English, mid 19th-century painters and poets known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood or “P.R.B.” As member Joan Brown reminisced about the RBP, “The point is that there really was no point. ...That was part of the attitude at the time.” Or, as Wiley wondered during a period of crisis, “What’s it all mean?” The raison d’être of the artists in this exhibition was the exploration and expression of connections between unrelated ideas and things, and the creation of work that communicated the absurdity, indignity, and joy of life.

Hilarie Faberman

Hilarie Faberman received her Ph.D. in the history of art from Yale University and was the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University from 1993 to 2014.

Depuis la ruée vers l’or, la Californie du Nord a été terre de progressistes visionnaires et de pionniers qui ont méprisé les normes afin de forger de nouvelles voies. Leur tempérament «perturbateur» était aussi vif en 1848 qu’il ne l’est aujourd’hui dans la Silicon Valley. Ce mode de transgression et d’innovation caractérise aussi un groupe de peintres et de sculpteurs nés pour la plupart dans les années 1930 et ayant commencé leur carrière dans la Bay Area à l’apogée de l’Expressionnisme Abstrait et de la Beat Generation. Leur proximité géographique en Californie du Nord (le long de la route I-80) et leurs trajectoires professionnelles communes ont permis à Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Roy De Forest, Mark di Suvero, Peter Saul, Wayne Thiebaud et Willliam T. Wiley de partager leur idée de l’art, à la fois iconoclaste, irrévérencieuse et très sérieuse. Leur esprit aiguisé, leur audace et leur défiance des conventions ont joué un rôle significatif dans l’apparition d’une scène artistique vivante dans cette région.

Figures de leur époque, les artistes de cette exposition ont œuvré dans l’intervalle entre l’art et la vie (pace Robert Rauschenberg) en traitant essentiellement des sujets tirés de la vie quotidienne. Les autoportraits et les représentations familiales d’Arneson, Brown et Saul, les dessins abstraits constitués de taches d’encre de Conner, les étranges règnes animaux de Forest et les peintures de Thiebaud se basaient sur la vie privée et l’imagination, non sur des théories ampoulées. La publicité, les bandes dessinées, les dessins animés, l’art non conventionnel, mais aussi leur respect des grandes figures du modernisme, Marcel Duchamp et Pablo Picasso, sont autant de sources qui ont nourri leur art. Comme en témoignent les argiles absurdes d’Arneson, les constructions de Brown et De Forest et l’usage de matériaux de récupération par Brown, Conner, De Forest, di Suvero et Wiley, ils ont partagé un mépris pour les techniques et méthodes académiques. Arneson a fait tomber la frontière entre art et artisanat en utilisant l’argile comme matériau de prédilection pour ses sculptures. Conner a trouvé dans la photographie et la vidéo un dispositif de poésie visuelle en détournant leur propension largement documentaire en support esthétique. Ironiques et subversives, les diatribes pleines d’esprit d’Arneson, Saul et Wiley prenaient racine dans toutes les sphères du monde de l’art, de la société et de la politique. Les jeux de mots étaient monnaie courante au sein de ce trio ; l’humour, l’irrévérence et l’ironie venaient adoucir les sujets difficiles. La distinction entre les œuvres belles, sensuelles et méritant la qualification «Art» et celles qui pouvaient être vues comme laides était inutile. Avec un mélange d’anarchie dadaïste, d’imagination surréaliste et une philosophie nord californienne partagée («whatever-you-will»), les artistes ont ouvert les portes à une plus grande reconnaissance du pluralisme dans l’art américain.

L’œuvre et la carrière de Joan Brown sont le témoignage de la nouvelle liberté qui s’est répandue sur la scène artistique de la Californie du Nord. Encore élève d’Elmer Bischoff et de Richard Diebenkorn à la California School of Fine Arts au milieu des années 1950, Brown a exposé à la 6 Gallery et à la Spatsa Gallery, deux des plus importants espaces à San Francisco. Avant 1959, elle comptait déjà des expositions personnelles à la Staempfli Gallery à New York, la Batman Gallery à San Francisco et la Ferus Gallery à Los Angeles. Dans les années 1960, elle produit des natures mortes et des portraits de famille très en matière, de maladroits collages noir et blanc et des sculptures faites de matériaux trouvés. Elle réalise notamment une œuvre à partir d’une fourrure de rat pour l’exposition Funk à Berkeley en 1967. Dans les années 1970, son intérêt pour les arts asiatiques influence son travail et l’a mène à employer des couleurs lumineuses, des motifs sauvages, à créer des surfaces plus plates et donner davantage de perspective à ses peintures. Invitée d’honneur et professeur dans la plupart des écoles d’art et universités de Californie du Nord, elle a joui d’une belle carrière, ce qui était peu commun pour une femme à l’époque. La vie bohème et conventionnelle de Joan Brown a permis une meilleure acceptation des artistes et de leurs processus artistiques.

“The point was that there was really no point... That was part of the attitude at the time” disait Joan Brown à propos du RBP, groupe fondé à San Francisco par Bruce Conner en 1959. Cette organisation informelle, artistique et littéraire, tenait son nom provocateur «Rat Bastard Protective Association», de la Scavengers Protective Society (i.e. les éboueurs de la ville) et du groupe de peintres et poètes anglais du milieu du XIXe siècle connus sous le sigle PRB (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood). De son côté, Wiley se questionnait : «What’s it all mean?» En définitive, le leitmotiv de tous ces artistes était l’exploration et la recherche de connections entre des idées et des choses sans rapport et la création d’une œuvre reflétant l’absurdité, l’indignité et la joie de vivre.

“REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE”ART IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1960–1990

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Robert

ARNESON

“Form is always crucial. No matter what your attitudes are. If you want to make something funny, it can be awfully boring, tiresome. You just can’t put your fingers on things, or anything unless there

is some kind of engagement in the form, regardless of what you’re doing.”

BALANCING ACT, 1975CéramiqueSignéeCeramic; signed 43 x 28 x 17,5 cm - 17 x 11 x 7 in.

1930-1992

© M

.A. M

ajew

ski

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SANS TITRE (ME), 1991Bronze, socle en métal

Signé et daté, édition 1/3 Bronze, on a metal base; edition 1/3; signed and dated

Haut. : 198 cm - 78 in.

SELF-MADE MAN, 1973CéramiqueSignée et datée Ceramic; signed and dated45 x 39 x 37 cm - 173/4 x 153/8 x 145/8 in.

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WOMAN IN GOLD (PORTRAIT OF SANDRA SHANNONHOUSE), 1983Céramique, en deux parties

Ceramic, in two partsHaut. : 207 cm - 811/2 in.

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FLOWER POT, 1967Céramique Signée et datée Ceramic; signed and dated72 x 48 cm - 283/8 x 187/8 in.

SANS TITRE (ORGANIC VASE), 1960Céramique

Signée Ceramic; signed

Haut. : 68 cm - 263/4 in.

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1918

ADVANCED STAGE OF CERAMOPHILIA, 1991CéramiqueCeramic43 x 33 x 31 cm - 167/8 x 13 x 121/4 in.

RAT KRATER #4, 1981Céramique

Signée, titrée et datée Ceramic; signed, titled and dated

44 x 34,5 cm - 173/8 x 135/8 in.

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Joan

BROWN

SELF PORTRAIT AT AGE 42, 1980Huile sur toileOil on canvas182 x 152,5 cm - 713/4 x 60 in.

“Any artist who has worked seriously for a number of years automatically lets go of linear thinking and begins to realize that patterns repeat themselves in cycles. There is nothing really new in the content or meaning of a work of art, as the spirit itself does not change but is expressed differently according

to the style and materials of the artist and of their time.”

1938-1990

© M

imi J

acob

s

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CHRISTMAS TIME (JOAN AND NOEL), 1970Huile sur masoniteSignée, titrée et datée au dosOil on masonite; signed, titled and dated on the reverse244 x 122 cm - 96 x 48 in.

NOEL’S FIRST CHRISTMAS, 1963Huile sur toile

Signée, titrée et datée au dos Oil on canvas; signed, titled and dated on the reverse

183 x 117 cm - 72 x 461/8 in.

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HOMAGE TO PICASSO, 1973Huile sur toile

Signée, titrée et datée au dosOil on canvas; signed, titled and dated on the reverse

212 x 183 cm - 831/2 x 72 in.

SMOKER, 1973Carton, huile, fil de fer, ficelle et pierreCardboard, oil, wire, string and stone bead 55 x 41 x 21 cm - 215/8 x 161/8 x 81/4 in.

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LUXURY LINER, 1973Carton, gouache, acrylique, crayon, huile et ficelle

Cardboard, gouache, acrylic, graphite, oil and string75 x 115 x 25 cm - 291/2 x 451/4 x 97/8 in.

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MARY JULIA Y MANUEL, 1976Huile sur toileOil on canvas244 x 197,5 cm - 96 x 773/4 in.

THE DANCERS #1, 1971Huile sur masonite

Signée, titrée et datée au dos Oil on masonite; signed, titled and dated on the reverse

228,5 x 122 cm - 90 x 48 in.

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THE KISS, 1976Huile sur toileOil on canvas

244 x 198 cm - 96 x 78 in.

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WOMAN WAITING IN A THEATER LOBBY, 1975Huile sur toile

Signée, titrée et datée sur le châssisOil on canvas; signed, titled and dated on the stretcher

198 x 228 cm - 78 x 893/4 in.

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CONNER

“My work is described as beautiful, horrible, hogwash, genius, maundering, precise, quaint, avant-garde, historical, hackneyed, masterful, trivial, intense, mystical, virtuosic, bewildering, absorbing, concise, absurd, amusing, innovative, nostalgic, contemporary,

iconoclastic, sophisticated, trash, masterpieces, etc. It’s all true.”

Bruce

1933-2008

DRESSING ROOM MABUHAY GARDENS, 1978Tirage argentiqueGelatin silver print81 x 101,5 cm - 32 x 40 in.

© F

rank

Eng

lish

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FLOATING HEAD, 1958-59Technique mixte sur panneau

Mixed media on board43 x 43 cm - 17 x 17 in.

UNTITLED (DO NOT REMOVE), 1960Assemblage technique mixteMixed media construction67 x 21,5 x 5 cm - 263/8 x 81/2 x 2 in.

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UNTITLED, 1967Encre sur papier

Signée et datée au dosInk on paper; signed and dated on the reverse

21,5 x 14 cm - 81/2 x 51/2 in.

INKBLOT DRAWING (5/13/93), 1993Encre et collage sur papierSigné et daté au dosInk and collage on paper; signed and dated on the reverse58,5 x 54,5 cm - 23 x 211/2 in.

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27 PUNK PHOTOS, 1978Tirage argentique, édition de 3 + 2APGelatin silver print, edition of 3 + 2 AP22 x 33 cm chaque - 83/4 x 13 in. each

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DE FOREST

“Making a drawing is like taking a trip – you start out on a simple journey to go someplace, but as you go along you find yourself doubling back on yourself,

getting into all kinds of unexpected situations and places.”

Roy

THE HORSEY SET, 1980Assemblage technique mixteMixed media construction138 x 120 x 54 cm - 543/8 x 471/4 x 211/4 in.

1930-2007

© J

. Mar

tin

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ROUGH WATER AHEAD, 1977Acrylique sur toile, cadre de l’artiste

Acrylic on canvas, in artist’s frame188 x 213,5 cm - 74 x 84 in.

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A BIRD IN HAND, 1965Acrylique sur toile, cadre de l’artisteSignée et titrée au dos Acrylic on canvas, in artist’s frame; signed and dated on the reverse183 x 153 cm - 72 x 601/4 in.

SANS TITRE, 1961Technique mixte sur panneau, cadre de l’artiste

Signée au dos Mixed media on board, in artist’s frame; signed on the reverse

39 x 26,5 x 6,5 cm - 153/8 x 103/8 x 21/2 in.

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Peter

SAUL

“My romantic ideal is to be like the Marx Brothers in that scene at the end where they’re plumbers and ride down the stairs in a bathtub on a raging torrent of waste water, to disrupt the fancy folk

listening to Margaret Dumont singing arias. That’s what I want to do to art appreciation.”

Né en 1934

© G

eorg

e Ad

ams

Galle

ry

GIRL #1, 1962Huile sur toileSignée et datée 62 en bas à droiteOil on canvas; signed and dated 62 lower right160,5 x 120 cm - 631/4 x 471/4 in.

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GUERNICA (BLUE), 1976Acrylique, graphite et encre sur papier cartonné

Signé et daté 76 en bas à gaucheAcrylic, graphite and ink on paperboard; signed and dated 76 lower left

50,5 x 112 cm - 197/8 x 441/8 in.

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SUBURBAN HOUSES #1, 1969Crayon de couleur, crayon, feutre et gouache sur papierSigné et daté 69 vers le bas à droiteColored pencil, graphite, felt-tip pen and gouache on paper;signed and dated 69 lower right101 x 116 cm - 393/4 x 455/8 in.

LAKE TAHOE, 1966Crayon de couleur, crayon, feutre et collage sur papier

Colored pencil, graphite, felt-tip pen and collage on paper76 x 102 cm - 297/8 x 401/8 in.

52 53

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CALIFORNIA ARTIST (PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM T. WILEY), 1973Acrylique sur toile

Signée et datée 73 vers le bas à droiteAcrylic on canvas; signed and dated 73 lower right

180 x 151 cm - 707/8 x 591/2 in.

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Mark di

SUVERO

5756

“I hope to make the space come alive. There’s a time when a piece of sculpture stands up, becomes itself and there’s no way to describe what I feel like... it’s poetry.”

Né en 1933

© A

nne

Leig

niel

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5958

WINGWISH, 2014Titane et acier

Titanium and steel chain103 x 90 x 66 cm - 405/8 x 351/2 x 26 in.

UNTITLED, 2015Acier et acier inoxydable

Signé des initialesSteel and stainless steel; signed with initials

87,5 x 93 x 46 cm - 341/2 x 361/2 x 18 in.

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Wayne

THIEBAUD

“What you have to do with a painting is to enliven it with your body, to feel its tensions, to feel its dislocation or to feel its comfort. “Gee, this feels really stable,” for instance. On the other hand, if it’s

a little too stable it can die on you. So it’s a wonderful tightrope walk.”

SANS TITRE (THREE CIGARETTES AND A CIGAR), 1973Huile sur panneau Signée et datée en bas à droiteOil on board; signed and dated lower right28,5 x 36 cm - 111/47 x 141/8 in.

Né en 1920

© C

ourte

sy A

llan

Ston

e Pr

ojec

ts, N

ew Y

ork

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HILLSIDE STREETS, 1993Acrylique sur toile

Signée et datée 93 en bas vers la gauche Acrylic on canvas; signed and dated 93 lower left

76 x 60,5 cm - 297/8 x 237/8 in.

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HORN CLOSE UP, 1964Assemblage technique mixteSigné, titré et daté au dosMixed media construction; signed, titled and dated on the reverse32 x 50 x 5,5 cm - 125/8 x 193/4 x 21/8 in.

6564

William T.

WILEY

“I didn’t have any quarrel with anybody’s form of expression, but I wanted to start paying attention to what mine was really about, and quite a bit seemed to be wanting to make some conscious attempt

to communicate with people regardless of whether they’re from an art background or not.”

Né en 1937

© R

ober

t Fru

mki

n

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THE ARBRITRARY AND THE CHOSEN LUMPS FROM THE SILVER RHINO OUT OF KAISER, 1966Assemblage technique mixte

Titrée, signée et datée 66 en bas à droiteMixed media construction; titled, signed and dated 66 lower right

52 x 53,5 x 6,5 cm - 201/2 x 21 x 21/2 in.

GRAND ILLUSION, 1964Huile sur masoniteSignée et datée au dos Oil on masonite; signed and dated on the reverse40 x 40,5 cm - 153/4 x 16 in.

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REMERCIEMENTS / SPECIAL THANKS

George Adams and Eva Rivlin

Paula Cooper and Steven Henry

Estate of Joan Brown

Estate of Robert Arneson

Noel Neri and Mike Hebel

Sandra Shannonhouse

Bo Joseph

Conner Family Trust

Hilarie Faberman

P. 10Quotation from interview with Gwen Stone, 1976, published in ‘Visual Dialog’, Vol 2, No. 1, Fall 1976, p 6 - © 1976 Roberta Loach, courtesy Robert Arneson ArchiveRobert Arneson, 1985 - Photo credit M.A. Majewski, courtesy George Adams Gallery

P. 20Quotation from essay ‘The Artist Versus the Art Historian and the Art Critic’ 1982Joan Brown, 1981 - Photo credit Mimi Jacobs, courtesy George Adams Gallery

PP. 34 à 41Quotation from a letter of Bruce Conner to Paula Kirkeby, 2000 © 2016 Conner Family Trust, San Francisco / Artists Rights Society (ARS).Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo credit Steven ProbertBruce Conner, 2007 - Photo credit Frank English, courtesy Conner Family Trust, San Francisco and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

P. 42Quotation from lecture to graduate students at Stanislas College, Turlock, CA, 1985, Published in Allan Frumkin Gallery Newsletter, No. 20, Fall 1985Roy De Forest at home in Port Costa, CA, 1985 - Photo credit J. Martin, courtesy George Adams Gallery

P. 48Quotation from artist’s statement, 1989Peter Saul at the University of Texas, Austin, 1982 - Photo credit George Adams Gallery, courtesy George Adams Gallery

PP. 56 à 59Quotation from artist’s statement, John Berggruen Gallery, 1983 Photo credit JSP Photography, courtesy of Mark di Suvero and Spacetime C.C.Mark Di Suvero - Photo credit Anne Leigniel, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

P. 60Quotation from interview with Academy of Achievement, Sacramento, CA, May 27, 2011, published by the Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org, Sep 03, 2015Wayne Thiebaud, circa 1970 - Unknown photographer, courtesy Allan Stone Projects, New York

P. 64Quotation from taped conversation with Ted Lindberg, July 30, 1981, published in Introduction by Ted Lindberg in catalog for exhibition ‘William T Wiley’ at The Charles H Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, October 1981 and Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY, December 1981 - © 1981 Emily Carr College of Art, courtesy George Adams GalleryWilliam T. Wiley, 1981 - Photo credit Robert Frumkin, courtesy George Adams Gallery

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