Art + Design 
11 April 2019
Art + Design 
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William Beckman b.1942

Study for Diana and Dierdre

1979
charcoal on paper 61 h × 49 w in (155 × 124 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $1,875
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Signed and dated to lower right 'W. Beckman 1979'.
provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York
exhibited: Inside Out: Self Beyond Likeness, May 1981 - April 1982, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE William Beckman: Drawings 1967-2013, May 2014 - February 2015, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Tête-à-Tête: Portraits in Dialogue, 25 February - 23 April 2016, Allan Stone Gallery, New York Draughtsmanship: Selected Drawings from the Allan Stone Collection, 1 March - 21 April 2018, Allan Stone Gallery, New York

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The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone

Allan Stone; Allan Stone Gallery, New York, c. 1975. Images courtesy of the Allan Stone Collection


Founded in 1960 by art dealer Allan Stone (1932–2006), the New York gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century. Celebrated for its eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th century, Allan Stone Gallery was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and showed the works of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. Stone also promoted the work of a younger generation of artists that were in conversation with other artists in his collection, working in the mediums of assemblage, collage and new modes of abstraction. In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, Allan Stone also collected and exhibited international folk art, Americana and important decorative arts and industrial design.

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