Artist Jose Francisco Sainz Fine Art

Biography

"He was born in 1923 in Santander, not far from the prehistoric Altamira cave paintings, the child of a school teacher and a miner. But soon the family was forced to move to Burgos, a city whose brothels and gloomy cathedrals made a lasting impression on the boy as he wandered the streets, tried to learn about death by visiting the morgue near his home. He found ways to be driven to places that would have been out of his reach by offering, for pennies, to show tourists the sights."

Presence of an Adventurer
"From the onset of the memoir we feel we are in the presence of an adventurer, whether the child is learning to be a bullfighter, taught by an older failed dreamer, or experimenting with his father's wineskin in the shape and the actual body of an entire pig. But already the rumblings of the Spanish Civil War have begun the struggle that was to have a profound influence on his life and work." (Read more . . . )

ENCOUNTERS; Peering Behind the Mask: a Past Looking Back On Its Past - New York Times

Jose Francisco Sainz came to love New York and he dove, with characteristic enthusiasm, into the Greenwich Village and East Hampton artist communities. Sainz was part of the East Hampton artist community that at the time included his close friend's: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, and Esteben Vicente. He was also a friend of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jack Kerouac.

Francisco 's Abstract Expressionism Works

The New York School of artists and their style of abstract expressionism is a very important and significant era of American art history. Abstract expressionism was first American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

Francisco Sainz moved within the circle of as a very close friend of the main exponents of the genre - Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. As such he produced many works in the 1950's in the new artistic vocabulary of abstract expressionism.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
San Gabriel Gallery, Pasadena, CA - Nov 2005 to Jan 2006
Solar Gallery, East Hampton, NY - 2002
The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C. - 2000
Morgan Rank Gallery, East Hampton, NY - 1993
Galleria H20, Barcelona, Spain - 1992
A Place Apart, Brooklyn, NY - 1982
Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY - 1964, 1966

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art - 1986
Selections from the Guild Hall Collection, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY - 1967
Art East, Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA, New York, NY - 1965, 1966
Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, NY - 1960, 61, 62, 63, 64

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Albany, New York
Mr. James Dicke, New Bremen Ohio
Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, Ohio
New York Hospital, New York, NY
Robert Hellman, Paris, France
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Lichtenstein, Great Neck, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr. and Mrs. William Manealoff, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Smith, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Stephanie Sobel, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Joyce Maynard, San Francisco, CA
Maria Pessino Rothwell, East Hampton, NY
Teri and Kevin Kennedy, East Hampton, NY
Crown Company, New Bremen Ohio
Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio

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