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John Millard Ferren Abstract Oil Painting, Head#1473861

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John Millard Ferren Abstract Oil Painting, Head#1473861
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Artist: John Millard Ferren, American (1905 - 1970)

Title: Head

Year: January, 1950

Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated, verso

Size: 36" x 24"

Frame size: 48" x 32"







John Ferren was one of the few members of the American abstract artists to come to artistic maturity in Paris. A native of California, in 1924 Ferren went to work for a company that produced plaster sculpture.



He briefly attended art school in San Francisco. Later he served as an apprentice to a stonecutter. By 1929, Ferren had saved enough money to go to Europe, stopping first in New York where he saw the Gallatin Collection. He went to France and to Italy. In Saint-Tropez, he met Hans Hofmann, Vaclav Vytlacil, and other Hofmann students.



When Ferren stopped to visit them in Munich, he saw a Matisse exhibition, an experience that was instrumental in shifting his work from sculpture to painting. In Europe, Ferren did not pursue formal art studies, although he sat in on classes at the Sorbonne and attended informal drawing sessions at the Academie Ranson and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.



Instead, Ferren said, he "literally learned art around the cafe tables in Paris, knowing other artists and talking." After this initial year in Europe, Ferren returned to California. By 1931 he was again in Paris, where he lived for most of the next seven years. Surrounded by the Parisian avant-garde, Ferren ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1950</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:36</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:John Millard Ferren Abstract Oil Painting, Head</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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