Large Al Held Painting "Triton 1"

This great abstract expressionist painting was executed in 1989. It is acrylic on canvas. The artist, Al Held was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. Held is considered a prominent figure among second-generation Abstract Expressionists. He had many significant group exhibitions in the 1960s at the Guggenheim Museum (1961, 1966); Jewish Museum, New York (1963); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1964); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1964); and Documenta, Kassel, West Germany (1968), among other venues. Notable solo exhibitions include those at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1966); traveling exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1968) as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1968); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1974); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1978); FIAC Foire internationale d’art contemporain, Grand Palais, Paris, with André Emmerich Gallery (1981); and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), New York (2002).