Description

This is an abstracted landscape rendered in oil on canvas by the artist Christopher Lane.  This was completed during Lane's three year stay in Paris and a year before he had his one man show in London organized by the well known art critic Helen Lessore, director of the Beaux Arts Gallery.   

Details

• Christopher Lane (American, 1937- )
• Untitled abstract landscape
  
• Oil on canvas
  
• Signed and dated "Christopher Lane, '61, Paris" on stretcher
  
• 36 1/4" x 36 1/4" (overall)
• New linen liner inside original frame
  

About the Artist

Born in 1937, Christopher Lane had a brilliant career for four decades, beginning as an art student at Goddard College in Vermont, followed by study at the Escuela Esmeralda de Pintura et Sculptura in Mexico City and three years living and painting in Paris from 1959-1962.  Upon his return to New York, he caught the eye of Frank O'Hara, Assistant Curator of Painting at MOMA, who invited Lane to participate in the exhibition  “Recent Landscapes by Nine Americans” which traveled throughout the United States and to Spoleto, Italy.  Success and more travel followed, with group shows at Yale and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris as well as stints living and exhibiting in Mexico, France, and Holland.  In 1972 Lane moved to San Francisco with his family and took up several teaching posts in the area.   From 1977 to 1979 he worked on perhaps his most important work -- an eighteen foot monumental triptych, which was shown three years later at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in a solo exhibition. All told, from 1957 to the present, Lane participated in over twenty solo and fifty group exhibitions. However, beginning in the 1990s his struggle with mental illness became more acute and his art suffered greatly.  We have seen only one work of his come to the market; many remain in his and family's possession and in private collections worldwide.