Noted Art Historian and Critic Peter H. Falk to Discuss the "Pinajian Discovery" at Lawrence Fine Art
Noted art historian and critic Peter Hastings Falk will discuss the "Pinajian Discovery" at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton, NY on Saturday, June 1 at 2 pm. After artist Arthur Pinajian’s death in 1999, five decades of accumulated artwork were found stacked up in the one-car garage and attic of the Bellport, NY, cottage he shared with his sister. He had left instructions for his collection to be discarded in the town dump. At the last moment an artist cousin refused to let the garbage truck haul away the paintings. Instead, Professor William Innes Homer, then dean of American art historians, was asked to examine the life’s work of the unknown artist and was stunned by what he found: a large body of extraordinary abstract landscape and figurative paintings by a highly gifted artist who was completely unknown in his lifetime. Since then the NYT and other media outlets have reported on this extraordinary discovery. Falk will discuss the discovery and Pinajian's place among other mid-century New York School painters. Falk has founded "Rediscovered Masters," which will sponsor exhibitions dedicated to artists whose accomplishments have been overlooked or been forgotten. Lawrence Fine Art is mounting an exhibition of Pinajian's work, which begins May 20.
- Contact:
- Howard Shapiro
- lawrencefinearts8@gmail.com
- 516-547-8965
