Beautiful Yvonne Thomas oil canvas, 36 x 28 inches, 42 x 34 inches with frame. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1913 - 2009. Yvonne Thomas was born in Nice, France and moved to the United States in 1925. Thomas was nearly forty years old and an accomplished painter when the 9th Street Show opened in 1951. She had already abandoned a promising career as a commercial artist and fashion illustrator in the thirties to pursue painting.Her earliest training in New York was under Alphaeus P. Cole at Cooper Union. In 1948 she met Patricia Matta, wife of the famous Surrealist, who introduced her to a group of abstract painters forming a school called Subjects of the Artist. She enrolled and found a new home.

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