[Rarebooks] FS: Ernest Briggs Exh. Folders/Catalogs w/Handwritten Letter to Komei Wachi
Joslin Hall Rare Books
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Sat Jan 28 12:45:49 EST 2017
From our new catalog-
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog369.pdf>
[Gallery K / Briggs] Three Ernest Briggs Exhibition Folders/Catalogs
with a Handwritten Letter to Komei Wachi.
This lot consists of three exhibition catalogs featuring Ernest Briggs-
"Oil Paintings", April 19-May 8, 1980 at Landmark Gallery in Manhattan
(with a 1-page press release), "Recent Paintings", November - 25
December 20, 1880, at Gruenebaum Gallery in Manhattan, and "New
Paintings", April 13 - May 8, 1982, also at Gruenebaum Gallery. The
April, 1980 catalog also has two gallery postcards for the show, one
hand-addressed to Komei Wachi at Gallery K, along with a handwritten
letter on yellow legal paper, dated 3/8/80 and addressed "Dear Mr.
Wachi", and providing an extremely detailed description of how he mounts
the canvas for his paintings on home-made temporary pine stretchers for
shows, with several diagrams. "Ernest Briggs (1923–1984) was an active
participant in the later wave of Abstract Expressionism, the revolution
in abstract painting that secured New York City's position as the art
capital of the world in the post-World War II period. His June 14, 1984
obituary in the New York Times said, "Ernest Briggs, a second-generation
Abstract Expressionist painter known for his expressive, sometimes
calligraphic brushwork and his geometric compositions…continually
struggled to reconcile an approach to painting identified with David
Park, Richard Diebenkorn and other Abstract Expressionists of San
Francisco, where he studied art, and an approach identified with first-
and second-generation artists of the New York School, such as Hans
Hofmann and Giorgio Cavallon. His work is in the collections of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art
Center, the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art and the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art."
The Washington Times reported on January 20, 2006- "The deaths of
Gallery K co-owners H. Marc Moyens and Komei Wachi just 2-1/2 years ago
ended the District’s most exciting art era. Theirs is a unique story.
French-born art aficionado Marc Moyens came here in 1945 to work as a
multilingual interpreter, landed a job at the World Bank, collected
intensively and founded Gallery Marc in 1969. It was part of the city’s
first “gallery rows” — this one on the “P Street strip” in Northwest —
which included the eccentric Henrietta Ehrsam’s Henri and Cuban-born
Ramon Osuna’s Pyramid galleries. Described by one writer as “creepy and
menacing,” the Frenchman’s “H. Marc Moyens Collection” played to mixed
reviews at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1969. When Mr. Wachi, a
Japanese-born mathematician, joined the gallery in 1975, the two formed
an unbeatable team that bucked art trends — such as that of the
then-fashionable Washington Color School — with Hieronymus Bosch-like
surreal evocations. At first glance, Mr. Moyens and Mr. Wachi couldn’t
have been more different. The rotund, suave Frenchman liked to hold
forth at gallery openings, but the soft-spoken, diminutive Mr. Wachi, 16
years Mr. Moyens’ junior, sat behind the gallery desk offering Japanese
tea and encouraging artists. They died within six weeks of each other,
Mr. Moyens of an apparent heart attack at 83 in April 2003 and Mr.
Wachi, 67, of pancreatic cancer in May. These two expatriates, both
impassioned art lovers, changed the art history of the nation’s
capital."
3 exhibition folders, each 8.5"x11", several pages and illustrations in
each, plus a letter. Minor soil, light wear. [41941] $125
Pictures ->
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog369.pdf>
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