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134 RICHARD DIEBENKORN
Folsom Street Variation III (Primaries)
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Color aquatint and drypoint on BFK Rives, 1986. 305x660 mm; 12x26 inches, full margins.
Initialed, dated and numbered 7/60 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Crown Point Press,
San Francisco, with the blind stamp lower right. A superb impression with strong colors.
Diebenkorn (1922-1993) adopted Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s/early 1950s,
influenced by Arshile Gorky,Willem de Kooning and Clyfford Still. In the 1960s, Diebenkorn
began to blend Abstract Expressionism with figural and color motifs gleaned from an acute