BRUCE COHEN
Still Life.

Oil on canvas. 295x295 mm; 11 5/8x11 5/8 inches.

Provenance: Estate of Bruce Cohen, Washington, D.C.

Cohen (born 1953) is a California artist who works in a colorful, crisp, realist style. According to Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, with whom he has exhibited frequently throughout his career, "Influenced by Dutch still-life painting and Surrealism he orchestrates compositions which include fruit, books, vases and always flowers from his garden. These items are placed in geometric interiors devoid of human beings but haunted by a human presence. Cohen, a native Southern Californian, graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Cohen is represented in public and private collections such as Phillip Morris, New York, Pacific Bell, Los Angeles, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

 

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000