"Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955" is the first full-scale exhibition to explore Diebenkorn's evolution as a young artist. "Because people have not seen some of his very early material, people would say he began as an abstract expressionist," Crocker Art Museum's Chief Curator Scott A. Shields has said. "And that we know now is not the case. He did not begin as an abstract expressionist. He began as a figurative painter." . Step into the exhibition galleries this holiday season to see t

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Via @christiesinc Richard Diebenkorn’s triumphant ‘Ocean Park #12’ makes its auction debut as a highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale in New York. ‘Ocean Park #12’ is among the earliest existing works from the artist’s widely celebrated ‘Ocean Park’ series. This pivotal masterpiece from 1968 represents the artist’s lifelong interest in the work of Henri Matisse and a near abandonment of the vestiges of figuration. Included in the seminal 2016 exhibition ‘Matisse/Diebenkorn’ organised by the