AL HELD Original PENCIL SIGNED LIMITED Edition SCREENPRINT Met Museum SCARCE

Description: AL HELD Original Pencil SIGNED LTD Edition SCREENPRINT Metropolitan MuseumArtist: AL HELD, American (1928 - 2005)Title: "Scholes II"Year: 1991 / 1992Medium: Original Silkscreen printed in 26 colors on Arches PaperSignature: Signed in Pencil by the Artist, signed and numbered in pencil lower rightEdition: Limited Edition of only 85 impressons, this one numbered "-- /85" in pencilPrinter: Printed by Hidemi Nomura (American, active late 20th century)Publisher: Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC [Mezzanine Gallery]Image Size: 23 1/4 x 29 in. (59 x 73.7 cm)Paper Size: 29 x 34 in. (73.66 x 86.36 cm)Note: London's WHITE CUBE GALLERY is presenting an exhibition on the works of AL HELD in 2020/2021, the first solo presentation of his work in London since 2008.Gallery Price: $4,500.00 (USD)ABOUT THE ARTIST: A pioneer of hard-edged abstraction, AL HELD created works of great complexity during his 50-year career. Abstract Expressionism was dominant in the New York art word of the early 1950s, and Held took part in several of its key exhibitions such as American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1961); Geometric Abstraction in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1962); and Post Painterly Abstraction, curated by Clement Greenberg, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1964). Held was born in Brooklyn in 1928 and died in Todi, Italy in 2005. He exhibited extensively throughout his career including solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1966); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (1968); ICA, Philadelphia (1968); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1969); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1974); and ICA, Boston (1978), among other museums. He produced major public artworks in prominent cities around USA including Philadelphia, Washington DC, New York and Orlando. Held's work features in many museums and public collections including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Neunationalgalerie, Berlin and Kunstmuseum, Basel. The Artist’s Estate, including the Al Held Foundation, is represented globally by White Cube, London, led by John Good, Director of Artists’ Estates, White Cube.

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