FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 17, 2008

CONTACT:

James Dunn

James Dunn Fine Art

(615) 516 - 5928

Email Address: jdunn@jldfineart.com

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James Dunn Fine Art Announces the Availability of Abstract Expressionism Art

by Francisco Sainz – The “New York School”

In collaboration with Elena Sainz, James Dunn Fine Art is pleased to offer abstract works from the estate of her father - Jose Francisco Sainz.  All interested parties are encouraged to inquire. 

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 the 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 was a member of the famous New York School circle which included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Esteban Vicente, Mark Rothko, Lester Johnson, and Alfred Leslie.  He was also a friend of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jack Kerouac.

Francisco (Left) and Esteban Vicente at Francisco’s Home

As such he produced several abstract works, many of which have never been viewed by the public.  Paco, as he was called by the aforementioned close friends, shunned fame and fortune by opting to live a quiet existence.  Although encouraged by art critics and close friends - Bill de Kooning, Pollock, Vicente, etc. - to more aggressively pursue recognition and celebrity, Sainz did not.  But he did produce a number of abstract works on canvas and paper.

A Sampling of Francisco Sainz Abstract Expressionistic Works

Francisco was born in Santander, Spain in 1923, the son of a railway worker and a teacher. Dreaming of a bullfighting career, he left home at the age of 14 to live with cousins in Madrid. Still in his mid-teens, he was swept up in an event that would forever mark his life and work - the Spanish Civil War. He took part in activities directed against Franco's insurgent fascist forces, and was briefly arrested as a result. For the next few years, he remained active in underground opposition to Franco, and lived under an assumed name.

While taking art courses in Barcelona in 1944 under the famed painter, Francisco Sainz de la Maza, he did not feel safe telling the master that they shared the same name.

In 1944, Sainz left Spain for Portugal, but finally ended up in the substantial Spanish community in New York. Although he would always miss Spain, he came to love New York and he dove, with characteristic enthusiasm, into the Greenwich Village and East Hampton artist communities.

ABOUT James Dunn Fine Art – James Dunn Fine Art provides modern/contemporary fine art to corporations, museums, art consultants and individual collectors. We also work with the estates of significant artists and art collectors.  Artists represented include Francisco Sainz, Chuck Oberstein, Tarkay, Jiang Tie Feng, Guillaume Azoulay, Viktor Shvaiko, Vadik Suljakov, etc.  You can contact us at (615) 516 – 5928 or jdunn@jldfineart.com.

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