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Acrylic on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, dated 1988.
He studied painting with Stuart Davids and William Baziotes in New York. He arrived in Paris in 1949 and studied with Zadkine and Stanley William Hayter, where he regularly participated in the Comparison and Young Painting exhibitions. The Krugier Gallery in Geneva held a solo exhibition for him in 1967.
KRELLENSTEIN derived the freedom of his gesture from American Abstract Expressionism (his training), but he abolished the abstract/figurative boundary and rediscovered the unity of a living form captured in its specificity, the power of life in its germination.
Philippe Mengue.
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