Esteban Vicente

Spanish/American, 1903 - 2001

Goyaescas, 1984, Oil on canvas, 27 x 38 inches — ***Goyaescas****, 1984,* Oil on canvas, 27 x 38 inches

Cadence, 1985, Mixed media and collage on canvas, 29 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches — **SOLD Cadence,** *1985,* Mixed media and collage on canvas, 29 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches

SOLD Untitled, 1957, Ink and paper collage on paperboard, 32 x 30 inches — **SOLD Untitled***, 1957,* Ink and paper collage on paperboard, 32 x 30 inches

SOLD Riva Series VI, 1981, Mixed media on paper, 22 x 33 inches — **SOLD Riva Series VI**, 1981, Mixed media on paper, 22 x 33 inches

SOLD Untitled, 1967, Mixed media collage on canvas, 22 x 16 inches — **SOLD Untitled, 1967,** Mixed media collage on canvas, 22 x 16 inches

SOLD By The Side, 1983, Oil on Canvas, 52 x 40 inches — **SOLD By The Side**, 1983, Oil on Canvas, 52 x 40 inches

SOLD Around, Oil on canvas, 1984, 53 x 42 inches — **SOLD Around,** Oil on canvas, 1984, 53 x 42 inches

SOLD Floating World, 1974, Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches — **SOLD Floating World,** 1974, Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches

SOLD Untitled (D80-15), Pastel and charcoal on paper, 1980, 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches — SOLD *Untitled (D80-15)*, Pastel and charcoal on paper, 1980, 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches

SOLD Untitled (D80-13), Pastel and charcoal on paper, 1980, 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches — **SOLD Untitled (D80-13)**, Pastel and charcoal on paper, 1980, 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches

SOLD Untitled, 1987, collage -oil and paper on canvas, 34 x 44 inches — **SOLD *Untitled*,** 1987, collage -oil and paper on canvas, 34 x 44 inches

SOLD October, 1980, Oil on canvas, 56 x 66 inches — SOLD *October,* 1980, Oil on canvas, 56 x 66 inches

SOLD Untitled, 1979, acrylic and painted paper collage on canvas, 46 x 40 inches — SOLD *Untitled,* 1979, acrylic and painted paper collage on canvas, 46 x 40 inches

SOLD Untitled, c. 1961, collage on board painted by the artist, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches — **SOLD Untitled,** c. 1961, collage on board painted by the artist, 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches

SOLD Collage #3, Collage on paper, 1957, 20 x 23 1/2 inches — **SOLD *Collage #3*,** Collage on paper, 1957, 20 x 23 1/2 inches

SOLD Collage, Printer paper collage on paper mounted to foamcore, 1969, 51 7/8 x 40 inches — SOLD *Collage,* Printer paper collage on paper mounted to foamcore, 1969, 51 7/8 x 40 inches

SOLD Blue on Green, 1981, acrylic on canvas, 56 x 68 inches — SOLD *Blue on Green,* 1981, acrylic on canvas, 56 x 68 inches

SOLD Untitled (Bridgehampton), 1967, oil on canvas, 28 x 32 inches — SOLD *Untitled (Bridgehampton)*, 1967, oil on canvas, 28 x 32 inches

Esteban Vicente began his life and career in Spain. His first solo show was in 1928 at the Ateneo de Madrid. He continued to show actively in Spain before moving to the United States in 1936 where he fell into a crowd that included the likes of Pollock, Rothko, Franz Klein, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, and Willem de Kooning, with whom he shared a studio with at one point. He had his first solo show in the United States in 1937 at the Kleeman Gallery, and subsequently participated in a myriad of other exhibitions including the infamous artist-organized Ninth Street Show, and all of the Stable Gallery Annuals. In addition to painting, Vicente taught for the majority of his career, and was on the faculty at numerous institutions across the US, including Yale, Princeton, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Though he began as a representational painter, Vicente abandoned this style to explore abstraction, which made up most of his body of work. He was deeply interested in collage as a medium, and produced incredibly vibrant, yet careful assemblages. His works are poetic, thoughtful, and gentle-- he was more in tune with a Rothko sensibility than a de Kooning. Even his charcoal black and white drawings are meticulously crafted, yet lyrical in their simplicity.

In 1991 Vicente received a Gold Medal for Fine Arts from King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain. At the end of his life, a museum was opened in his honor--the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente. Vicente was present for its opening in Segovia by the Spanish government in 1998. He even had a street named after him near his birthplace in Turegano.