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Shirley Goldfarb (1925–1980) studied at New York’s Art Students League after a brief involvement with theatre. There she met the draughtsman Gregory Masurovsky, whom she married in 1953; the couple settled in Paris the following year. Paul Facchetti presented her first solo exhibition in 1956 and showed her work again in 1965, with a preface by Michel Butor. Her painting shifted from a strongly gestural approach to a monochrome period between 1966 and 1970. She subsequently developed surfaces composed of small palette-knife touches, repeated in a back-and-forth movement. Yellow Ovale (1966) and Once Upon a Time (1974) mark this development. Her journal offers a further record of her life as an artist; Caroline Loeb adapted it for the stage in 2000.
This profile brings together identity references for Shirley Goldfarb and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
DognyAuction · Kornfeld · Germann
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Oil on paper
Shirley GOLDFARB (1925-1980), Sans Titre
huile sur papier
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Published result : 3244 CHF
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Untitled
oil on canvas
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Untitled
oil on canvas
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Oil on paper
Ohne Titel, 1963
Öl auf Papier.
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