This I dont particularly like or dislike, but I wholly approve of it.. Jessica McKinney. RUTH KLIGMAN ARTIST 25-1-1930 - 1-3-2010 By RANDY KENNEDY SHE was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that changed the course of American art by killing its angriest abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time. Titled Red, Black & Silver, the painting sits at just 24 x 20 inches a size unconventionally small for Jackson Pollock. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. But Kligmans spiritual icons of the 1980s and her more recent explorations of enveloping light have alternated with those demons that first loomed up in the 1960s, drawn on onion skin with colored pencils and metallic pigments. His life was cut short at the age of forty-four, in a tragic automobile accident at his own hands while driving intoxicated. In various correspondences with Kligman and her attorneys over the years, the former Authentication Board members asserted that the painting was plagued by incongruity, and considered Kligman a self-interested party whose account of the works creation could not be adequately corroborated. Her death was announced by the artist Jonathan Cramer, a friend. Ruth Kligman and Jennifer Baahng in 2004 at the studio Ruth Kligman Demon: Beginning, 2000 Color pencil and metallic acrylic on onion skin paper 18 x 24 in. And it was in the 50s that de Kooning became an emblematic figurethe first modern-art star. Rising to the top merely delivered him to the bottom, to a bums wave through a glass window. An art battle has been brewing over the past twenty years, centered on a small geometric painting purported to be the last work of American artist Jackson Pollock. Art is my life, is my motto, Ms. Kligman wrote, and in an interview she once said that she knew better than many how hard such a life was. Her friend, Edith Metzger, was not so fortunate. The artists who had paid their dues in the 30s and 40s may have longed for success, but they found that success when it camewhether desired or not, achieved or notwas finally irrelevant. [2], Kligman was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey,[1] with ancestors who had come from eastern Europe. Kligman even boldly set up in Krasners studio, determined to get Pollock to start painting again. When she visited de Kooning in 1954, they had some screaming rows, usually when she questioned him about his drinking. This period also gave rise to the vainglorious American art world that we know today. De Kooning once named a paintingin a funny reference to the title of one of his favorite books, Fear and Trembling, by the Danish philosopher Sren KierkegaardNo Fear but a Lot of Trembling. PIONEERS ($10,000-$24,999) . Annie Monfort, Art Director. His hair was whitening; he had the green eyes and stocky build of a Dutch sailor. Pollock and de Kooning were regarded as great rivals; people would pick sides, Michael Goldberg said, as if they were baseball teams. De Kooning and Pollock could also be good, sloppy buddies. It was an expression from Jackson to me.. The two shows together provide an obvious and necessary occasion for assessing de Koonings complex achievement. The end of the millennium saw a resurgence of figurative expressionism across the art world; Kligmans came from a place of re-examined tragedy. But what a wonderful moment it waswhen success was in the air but there was still no question of selling out, when talk still seemed what it had always been, yet richer, more knowing, confident, and juiced-up. When I asked Clem Greenberg what he felt about the spiritual in Pollock work, he stopped and snorted ineffable, we dont discuss that. Recently, Kligmans paintings have gazed back to the quiet of a time before she was bornthe moment when one of the seeds of American paintings triumph began to germinate in a cultivated garden in France: Monets explorations of vision itself, his dissection of shape, figure, ground, and color. Postmodernism has no idea how to approach this phenomenon. He was speeding wildly.. Kligman was herself an artist who had a colourful life in the New York art world after the car crash, going on to have relationships with several other famous artists. People are often surprised to learn that in 1950 de Kooning was already 46 years old. A documentary about the life of artist Jackson Pollock. Others might make a dream of de Koonings personathat handsome aura of the passionate, suffering geniusbut de Kooning himself faced very real demons. Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956), was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. In the 1980s and 90s, Kligmans faith in art inspired reflective (both figuratively and literally) compositions incorporating the image of the cross, harking back to Byzantine icons whose precious metals foreshadowed the awaiting heavenly paradise. Pollock's most famous paintings were made during this "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. 2023 Cond Nast. The attention directed at de Kooning began to arouse resentments and jealousies. A friend encouraged him to settle in East Hampton, but de Kooning didnt care for fancy moneyed people. The end of the millennium saw a resurgence of figurative expressionism across the art world; Kligmans came from a place of re-examined tragedy. And on what would have been Pollocks 100th birthday, the canvas headed to auction in 2012. As Biography and The Guardian report, just after 10 p.m. on August 11, 1956, Pollock drove his convertible Oldsmobile into a tree at 80 mph. For the impoverished artists of the 30s and 40s, largely ignored by the outside world, alone in their studios without telephones or television, talking together was essential. By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. In the paper pieces, the strokes are barely distinguishable from their job of shining the paper surface. And then the bum opens the door and starts calling my name. Pollock, a married man almost two decades older than her, was at the peak of his fame thanks to his celebrated painting style entitled action painting that had earned him the name Jack the Dripper.. What mistress or kept man has had this reflected on his status as an artist I cant think of one. Her trustees and attorney approached Phillips de Pury & Company about selling the work. De Kooning even bought a fancy Italian suit to add to his meager closet of painting clothes and throw-ons. Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone and be everywhere in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time, died Monday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Ruth Kligman (1930 - 2010) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey. Ruth KLIGMAN is an artist born in the 20th century. So was the next generation of artistsnot just painters but also poets, composers, and writers. One hears chords in the distance not quite dissonant and haunting. A tangled mass of colored pencil lines on onion-skin-paper has a completely unexpected material presence that is defined by the artists hand. Proving its authenticity was something she wouldnt attempt to do for as long as Krasner was on the main authentication committee. So he says, Hey, Jeff, how you doing? Jeff says, So far so good. It has been said that American lives have no second acts. Her father was Morris Kligman. It's on the house. Even Life magazine, the voice of Main Street, had just printed an article on Jackson Pollock. This street was now the center of a true scene. Galleries were opening along it in the mid- and late 50s; those in the know would cruise the exhibitions. Ruth Kligman knew all about the darkness that haunted the world of Jackson Pollock. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity., And it also seemed wonderful to uncork the days tension, in the de Kooning way, at the Cedar. New York in the early 50s was no longer the same demoralized city it had been during the Depression and war years. De Kooning works for months on his painting, which is highly charged with personal feeling, rich in contradiction, at once funny and furious. Somehow that seems more admirable than any personathan any talk about Abstract Expressionists or action painters or triumph or heroism.. Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948, oil and enamel paint on canvas, 172.7 x 264.2 cm. Some represented flings, others more sustained relationships. De Koonings has had many acts. The Horus series engages the viewer through broad areas of color that alternately suppress or yield to the writhing black, skeletal frameworks underneath; these are works of tense beauty. A classic binger, he drank when the pressures inside became unbearable. Was she simple the woman who earned the nickname death-car girl from poet Frank OHara after being the sole survivor of the crash that ended the life of the greatest painter of abstract expressionist movement heralded by art critic Clement Greenberg? Critics were starting to show up, along with curators and collectors. From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, including timeline, biographies, and exhibitions by Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and others. When he was done, he gave the painting to me, Kligman claimed. You know how they talked about Czanne as someone who always thought that his efforts never quite reached his aims? De Kooning had an affair with Ward in the mid-50s; in 1956 she gave birth to the painters only child, Lisa. Artist. In Demons, for example, similar compositions begin with rounded, swirling layers shot through with jagged forms, then transmute into recognizably demonic visages before melting into squalls of orange, blue, and black. Kligman admired artists above all else; she wanted to play Camille Claudel to de Koonings Rodin, to talk and inspire, to be the muse as well as the lover of genius. Then, as if by whim, he gives it up. Boozing provided a kind of permissiona way to challenge the containing edges, to release the genie inside. This was no surprise. On the night of August 11, 1956, 44-year-old Jackson Pollock drove his Oldsmobile 88 convertible while under the influence of alcohol with two passengers onboard, Edith Metzger and Ruth Kligman. You can just see them on the prows of ships, breaking gigantic ice floes.. Ruth Kligman is known for Abstract painting. One day in 1959, an old and close friend of de Koonings was standing in a secondhand-furniture store on the Bowery. Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure, he once declared. Did de Kooning have a difficult mom? There remained something boyish in his face, however, made all the more appealing by the weathering of middle age. For the first and only time in his life, de Kooning was also acting rather like a star. A dive of no distinctionwhich was its distinctionthe Cedar had a narrow bar in front and booths with partitions in back where you could drink and eat bar food. Design Credit: Jeremiah Brent Design, Photo Credit: Nicole Franzen. On New Years Eve the artists gathered to talk and drink and dance. The discovery, if accepted by the art world, could lead to a huge payday for the Kligman estate. A room of minimalist water lilies in lip gloss muted colors, industrial cosmetics contemporary feel, very spare, hardly there, muted colors, slight sheen, five foot square canvases end to end and on, a quiet contemplation, ephemeral, lurking. 12. Copyright 2023 ARTDEX. . He was widely acknowledged to have the largest gift, to be a draftsman of genius with a beautiful, hooking stroke that could express both impulsive energy and the tailing back of reflective thought. Kligmanwho also had romantic ties to Pollocks art-world rival Willem de Kooningclaimed that Pollock created Red, Black & Silver for her just weeks before he was killed in a 1956 car crash. It holds light, shines; it maintains its strangeness. After Krasner, who was still Pollacks manager and marketer, had discovered the affair, she fled to Europe for the summer while Pollock and Kligman played house in East Hampton. The image of Woman Iand her many successors over the next few yearswas like nothing else in American art. [1] She then became involved for several years, from about 19571961, with the artist Willem de Kooning. Edith started screaming, Stop the car, let me out! Ms. Kligman wrote about that night in Love Affair: A Memoir of Jackson Pollock, her 1974 book about their tumultuous relationship, which had started only a few months earlier when she met Pollock at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village. He liked to ride his bicycle to Louse Point, a sandy spit of land that reaches into Gardiners Bay, to watch the reflections of water and sky. But the truth is that as early as 1948 they were mostly living apart. In the late 50s and early 60s, de Kooning tried to set up a household with Ward. Following these, Kligman began to shape her canvases into totems of color, as in Coney Island Baby, where an orange oval (an egg?) "The final painting of your life, your legacy to me, silver shimmering substance of the cosmos, the red heart oval shape of love, and the black form grounds the field." He was struggling with alcoholism. At one point, Kligman voluntarily took a lie-detector testand passed. By noon most of the work had been sold. Kligman, an artist herself, says that they could talk together through the night, that their affair was not just body-to-body. That was a sign of first class versus second class. There was now drinking everywhere. In those days, they did not drink muchat most, a beer. I felt I had known him for years.. De Kooning said he started to worry when a large man wearing a sombrero walked in and said, Hi, Im White Eagle. The painterly application of the paint in this series (Landscapes Of The Sky) is more familiar as painting, making the paper works ever stranger. Many artists in the area had known one another for a long time, scrounging through the Depression and war years in cold-water flats, making paintings that no one bought, and analyzing Picasso over nickel cups of coffee. She was eighty and lived in Manhattan. The enchanting and gregarious Kligman met Pollock at a small gallery in New York where she worked as . Still, the natural world did find its way into his paintings in the form of sand and other materials that the artist routinely applied to his canvas, along with his paints, while the titles of some worklike his gargantuan Autumn Rhythm (1950)reflect a sensibility attuned to the seasons. Images of demons become objects of sheer beauty. His heart would race; he worried about palpitations. A doctor friend encouraged him to have a drink to settle his nerves, and the drink worked too well. Another passenger, Edith Metzger, Kligman's friend, was killed, and Pollock was thrown 50 feet into the air and into a birch tree. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Did this happen? x W 17.75 in. It reflects light casually. A decade-long bender, de Koonings wife, Elaine, called the 1950s. As usual with drinking, however, boozing at the Cedar was more fun in the early days. Looking at art. Willem De Kooning and inspired his painting, "Ruth's Zowie." She was also involved with Jackson Pollock at the time of his death. It seems like an unfamiliar piece of material. Ms. Kligman wrote that he looked tired out, sad, and that his body seemed as though it couldnt stand up on its own., Ms. Kligman, by contrast, as described by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan in de Kooning: An American Master, their 2004 biography, had about her the air of the earthy, voluptuous movie stars of the era, such as Elizabeth Taylor or Sophia Loren. (She was portrayed by Jennifer Connelly in Pollock, the 2000 movie about his life; Ms. Kligman filed suit against the films makers, contending that they had violated her copyright in using parts of her memoir. In 1958, following a big piece in Art News, a bunch of Yale students wearing beanies piled in through the door. The old community of downtown artists was also beginning to dissolve. Art was also a way of being, a daily effort to wrest ones nature from the paint. Fifty years earlier, when she was his mistress, she had seen it firsthand the night the notoriously troubled artist drove off a narrow country lane, killing himself, her best friend, and traumatizing Kligman for life. And not just any woman, but Woman. It was in the 1950s that being an artist suddenly began to arouse excitement and mean something important to a country that, for most of its history, had been notoriously indifferent to artists. In Woman and Bicycle, she has two mouths. On May 8, the National Gallery of Art in Washington is presenting a large retrospective of de Koonings painting, which will travel to New York and London. Imagine being married to an attractive and powerful person who constantly praises and promotes you and your work, personally and to critics and magazines, and yet not be really married. It is the right time to place Ruth Kligman properly in art history. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Just one year after Pollocks tragic passing, De Kooning titled his 1957 painting Ruths Zowie. There remain disagreements among critics over the value of the various periods in his art. Money, fame, glitz, and the beetling about of sycophants brought to art the sort of trashy glamour that eventually seems to seduce everything big in America. Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 - March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist [1] who was romantically involved with two prominent American artists of the mid-20th century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. He made a life there that contained some echoes from his Dutch background. Jackson Pollock. Ruth Kligman is one of the towers of abstract expressionism and when this is outed many historians and critics will suddenly come forward with oh I always suspected, after years of hesitation to break from the dark hand. When people asked him how he was doing, he liked to answer with one of his favorite stories. Rather, the drama revolved around a painting that remained in Kligmans possession until her death in 2010. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Dimensions: H 15 in. By the early 50s, Pollock, whom de Kooning acknowledged as the first to break the ice, was sinking into a painful, sodden, and sometimes violent alcoholism. Elaine de Kooning once told the writer Curtis Bill Pepper, That was no pink, nice old lady. Ruth Kligman is at the top of her game as a painter. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. "Ruth Kligman, Muse and Artist, Dies at 80", "Ruth Kligman, 80; painter was a muse to many artists", "Pollock, De Kooning, Johns, Warhol, Kline their Muse and Lover", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Kligman&oldid=1129389626, Pages with login required references or sources, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Art Students League, New School for Social Research, New York University, This page was last edited on 25 December 2022, at 02:34. [3][4], Kligman was involved with Pollock in 1956 for a few months before his death. Her works include Joan of Arc and the Light and Deman series. One wall has three canvases on it. Some think his work declined in the 50s; others would say the 60s; still others, the 80s. provides the weight that balances a thrusting nine-foot chevron of blue. They were not innocent or nave or sweetit is a serious mistake to make a sentimental romance of that small pond. Many believe, as I do, that careful picking yields important work throughout. People from uptown, slumming around looking for action, would suddenly show up. They had remained mostly poor and unknownbut now, miraculously, critics and collectors were beginning to notice American as well as European art. He put his foot all the way to the floor, she wrote of the crash. She was in the car as well and survived, and bore the nickname death-car girl for the rest of her life. During this period, de Kooning also began the process of moving his studio. Among the other remarkable female figures in de Koonings life in the 50s were three who seem to round out the artists wide-ranging fascination with women. Pollock and Kligman met when Kligman worked as a gallery assistant at a small Midtown Manhattan gallery. Born in Newark on Jan. 25, 1930, Ms. Kligman said she had wanted to live the artists life since reading a biography of Beethoven at 7. Philip Pavia, a sculptor and a founder of the Club, announced the theme of this party that would not end: The next half-century, he declared, belongs to us.. He added that Phillips de Pury & Company will continue to represent the painting and that no new auction date had been set, although a spokesperson from Phillips mentioned a possible early-2013 auction date. The question was always what he would do with his hand. Money was beginning to flow once again, but still not enough to corrupt. To most artists at the party, de Kooning was already considered first among equals, the one who, in the vulgar sweepstakes of history, was thought to have the best shot at claiming the next half-century. Kligman, on the other hand, believed that she was the victim of an elite art-world clique honoring a personal vendetta against her on behalf of Krasner. Kligman is often portrayed as a groupie and bimbosometimes as a dangerous bimbo. Ruth Kligman asked Audrey Flack. Ruth Kligman, the artist's mistress, who was in the car with him when he crashed to his death on Fireplace Road in Springs, Long island in 1956, claimed he had painted it for her just weeks before. What seems more interesting, especially for an artist whose lifes work represents such a passionate affair with the female figure, is that de Kooning in the 50s appeared to cover the blocknot like a tomcat but in the way of a man absorbed by all the various roles assigned to women. Two important critics of the period, his friends Thomas B. Hess and Harold Rosenberg, defined their personal critical visions through his work. At least when seen from afar, as paradise always is. Now that some artists were being anointed with fame and money, the cruel distinctionsoften absurd and unjustbegan to cut to the heart of their traditional community. . Aaron March. 2005 DEMONS THE LIGHT, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, 1988 New York Studio Show, sponsored by Sur Rodney Sur, 1986 M. Donahue Gallery, New York, New York, 1964Gallery International, New York, New York, 1962Thibaut Gallery, New York, New York, 1989-90 Spencer Throckmorton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1987 Wessel OConnor Gallery, Rome, Italy, Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1986Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1985Kamikazi Gallery, New York, New York, 1984 Shuttle Gallery, New York, New York, 1967 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1958Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York. She survived the fatal . Until the day she died in 2010, Kligman insisted that the painting was the American masters final work until the day she died in 2010. With Jackson Pollock, Ed Harris, Ruth Kligman, Lee Krasner. A similar-size Pollock painting (about 2 by 2 feet) sold for $58.3 million at a Sotheby's auction . The ambitious swagger of the era can be felt in the slashing reds and blacks that speed across an eight-foot canvas titled The Bullring; its emotions suffuse Broken Cosmos, where sullied whites and bruised magentas entwine sandy ochres, echoing the doubt and struggle of the generation of artists who broke the ice and brought forth an American art that finally elevated the New World to the firmament of the Old. He was using very big brushes to create large, stroked forms. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. . His friend and rival, Jackson Pollock, had died in a car accident in 1956; de Kooning surprised people a year later by dating Pollock's girlfriend, Ruth Kligman, the only survivor of the crash . In a dingy studio on Fourth Avenue, de Kooning began, early in the decade, what struck many people in the small art world of the time as a legendary struggle. On July 27 he shot himself in the stomach among the wheat fields. (A representative for the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, attorney Ronald Spencer, had no comment regarding the paintings removal from auction.). To Rothko, the difference between high dreams and the tawdry art scene was one more unbearable misery; he committed suicide in 1970. Then, still staring at the horizon, he would move his painting hand through the air, very precisely, as if to capture the exact effect, letting out his breath in a very quiet and respectful Sssssss. I was in the store and I saw a drunk standing on the street and pointing in the window and mumbling to himself. (He. He was not living in New York; he had moved to Springs, near East Hampton, in 1945. Bills work ethic was extraordinarily provocative, according to the painter Michael Goldberg. American photographer Irving Penn and French sculptor Marisol would likewise feature Kligman in their work. A man of de Koonings spirit and intelligence, she says, would not have hung around for long with a bimbo. He also had a kind of existential charm. Though a significant abstract painter in her own right, she is perhaps better remembered as the lover and muse of several notables of the genre. . American artist Ruth Kligman smiles as fellow artist James Rosenquist kisses her on the cheek at a party , New York, New York, May 16, 1975. But each also reflected an important and different aspect of de Kooning. This qualified attribution did not dampen the houses apparent enthusiasm about Red, Black & Silver: this spring, head of evening sales Zach Miner noted that the tale of Pollocks death was inextricable from the object itself, adding that the tragedy was one of the most mythic moments in the entirety of art history. Asked whether Phillips de Pury believed the painting was a legitimate Pollock work, he replied, We have no reason to believe that its not . 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