Richard Diebenkorn, 1963
When art critic Hilton Kramer visited the Poindexter Gallery in 1963, he was deeply impressed by the nerve of Richard Diebenkorn’s Knife in a Glass of that same year, a tiny still life hanging amid a welter of larger figurative canvases in the artist’s New York solo show. “one hardly knows,” he pondered in his review, “wether to embrace its audacity – it is certainly a very beautiful painting – or shudder at such raked esthetic atavism.”
The Not–So–Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture
by Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, Patricia Trenton
tout ceci est magnifique 