Acquisition
1956
Hedda Sterne
American, born in Romania, 1915-2011
New York, 1956
Oil on canvas
33 x 53 in. (83.8 x 134.6 cm)
The Artist
currently on display at the
Art Institute of Chicago
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After studying art in Paris, Bucharest and Vienna, Hedda Sterne emigrated to the United States in 1941. Upon her arrival, Sterne’s work was included in the maiden exhibition of surrealism in the United States, First Papers of Surrealism (October 1942), curated by Marcel Duchamp and André Breton. In the fifties, she was a prominent member of the Irascibles, along with Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, among others. In this innovative milieu, Sterne was a key figure in developing the language of what came to be known as Abstract Expressionism.