Esteban Vicente
Forma Color, 1998 Oil on canvas 52h x 42w in
Genesee, 1963 Oil on canvas 48h x 64w in
Ideal Forms, 1999 Oil on canvas 52h x 42w in
Instinctive, 1994 Oil on canvas 50h x 42w in
Sin Titulo, 1999 Oil on canvas 52h x 42w in
Untitled, 1987 Oil on canvas 62h x 48w in
Untitled, 1991 Oil on canvas 44h x 62w in
Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas 28h x 26w in
Abstract Expressionist Painter Esteban Vicente was born in 1903 in Turégano, Spain. Vicente moved to the United States in 1936, joining the bohemian community of New York School artists. He shared a studio in the East Village with Willem de Kooning and his contemporaries included Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Barnett Newman. Additionally Vicente helped organize and participated in the famous 1951 9th Street Art Exhibition.
In a 2013 catalog of Vicente’s work, New York art gallery owner Barbara Toll wrote, “Esteban Vicente created a garden with the colors he wanted to paint. And with the garden as inspiration, he used those colors to paint ethereal canvases.”