Robert Natkin (American, 1930-2010), Untitled (Stripes)

Acrylic on wove paper, signed at lower center, mounted in a Plexiglass frame.

Sheet size 28 x 38 in.; Frame dimensions 30 3/4 x 40 in.

Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Natkin achieved his greatest success as a painter following his move to New York in 1959. Inspired greatly by the Post-Impressionists and Abstract Expressionists, Natkin synthesizes his own unique compositional arrangements and techniques through the layering of colors and forms on large scale canvases.

Robert Natkin's work may be found in numerous public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; and many others.

Pinholes to each corner of sheet; sheet affixed to paperboard with unkonwn adhesive at each corner; slight waviness to the sheet; the frame with crack to upper left corner and some surface abrasions; minor accretions inside framing. Not examined out of the frame.