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Hedda Sterne
1910 – 2011 Bucharest
The only woman among the Abstract Expressionist 'Irascibles'.
Sterne exhibited with the surrealists in Paris, fled to New York in 1941 and appeared as the only woman in the famous 1951 'Irascibles' photograph with Pollock and Rothko. She painted machines, roads and cities.
Works
Notable works
№ 01
New York, N.Y.
No freely-licensed image
№ 01 · 1955New York, N.Y.
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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