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Howard Mehring

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$50,000.00

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Framed, Abstraction, Mid-Century Style, Washingtonian, Post-War Twentieth Century, Contemporary, Unique Work, Painting, Mehring

About the work

Howard Mehring is best known for his hard-edged geometrical color field paintings and screenprints. But he first proved his worth as a painter in far more abstract expressionist work.

This painting is one of the very few of Mehring’s early works which remain extant. With layers of both thinned and heavy paint poured and layered on an unprimed canvas, the work is simultaneously bright and dark, ordered and chaotic.

The artist was close friends with fellow District of Columbia artist James F. Hilleary, to whom Mehring gifted numerous works. There came an occasion during which Mehring, with Hilleary in Hilleary’s studio, suddenly picked up a pencil and scribbled out his name on all of the canvases he had given Hilleary, convinced that his work was unworthy. Time has proved Mehring wrong.

Attributes	Value
Condition	Excellent Condition
Date	1950-1960
Type	Paintings, Washington Artists
Framing	Framed
Medium	Oil on canvas, Painting
Signing, Dating, and Titling	Hand signed by the Artist