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About
About the Clivette Estate: Four Riders, LLC represents the artwork of Merton Clivette, an American Expressionist painter (1868-1931) and a key figure of the Ashcan Realism School of painting. During the 1920’s his style evolved as he moved from realism toward expressionism eventually moving on to figurative and the abstract. Clivette’s work was ahead of its time in its anticipation of non-representational art and the incorporation of chance effects. These ideas would be explored and developed by Kandinsky (as early as 1911) and later by the Abstract Expressionists, especially Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning in the late 1940’s and 50’s
Solo Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1926 New Gallery
600 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y.
1927 New Gallery
600 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y.
1927 Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
83, rue de Faubourg Saint-Honore,
Paris, France (catalogue, review)
1928 Milwaukee Journal Gallery of
Wisconsin Art Milwaukee, WI
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1928 Speed Memorial Gallery
Louisville, Kentucky
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1929 Art Center
65 E. 56th St. New York, N.Y.
“Gustave Nassauer’s Collection of Paintings by Clivette”
1930 100 Central Park South
New York, N.Y.
“Collection of Gustave Nassauer”
(catalogue, review)
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1933 Art Center
65 E. 56th St. New York, N.Y.
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1993 Denenberg Fine Arts Gallery
257 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA
1993 Couturier Gallery
166 N. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA
(review)
2004 CaliforniaView Fine Arts
143 N. Santa Cruz Ave. Los Gatos, CA
(catalogue)
2023 Denenberg Fine Arts Gallery
417 North San Vicente Blvd. West Hollywood, CA
Note: The information on this resume was derived from primary sources researched by the descendants of Merton Clivette. The resume continues to be updated as more information is discovered regarding exhibitions, publications, commissions and works held in public and private collections
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