Centre Pompidou: Shirley Jaffe, An American in Paris

Published on 02 June 2022, by Henri Guette

Shirley Jaffe, who died in 2016 at the age of 92, gets her first retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016), Untitled (Little Matisse), 1968, oil on canvas, 119.5... Centre Pompidou: Shirley Jaffe, An American in Paris

Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016), Untitled (Little Matisse), 1968, oil on canvas, 119.5 x 91.2 cm/47.4 x 35.90 in.
Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Audrey Laurans Dist. RMN - Grand Palais

A prominent figure in the Paris art scene and a model for abstract painting at the turn of the 21st century, she left the Musée National d'Art Moderne an exceptional collection of works, seen from the angle of a chronology. The American artist, who liked to claim that she discovered Jackson Pollock…

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