Discount Pamono Edo Murtić, Composition, 1967, Acrylic on Paper

Acrylic on paper.
signed and dated.
paper with total measurements of 63.5 x 44.5 cm.
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Edo Murtić was a painter from Croatia, known for his style of lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism.
He worked in a variety of media, including oil painting, gouache, graphic design, ceramics, mosaics, murals, and theatrical set design.
Birth: May 4, 1921, Croatia
Died: January 2, 2005, Croatia
biography.
Edo Murtić (1921 – 2005) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with Professor Ljubo Babić. He later moved to Belgrade to attend the Petar Dobrović School of Art.
During World War II, he became involved as a partisan in the anti-fascist resistance. During this time he made numerous drawings of high documentary and artistic value.
Between 1951 and 1952, Murtić traveled to the United States, where he met Jackson Pollock, de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, James Brooks and other American artists. During that period he created the “Experience of America” cycle.
In 1958 he participated in the XXIX Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta.
In 1960, Murtić received the Marzotto Prize and the Gold Medal of the Italian President at the Premio di Pittura Città di Faenza.
The artist participated in the 7th Tokyo Biennial in 1965 and in the IX São Paulo Biennial in 1967.
In 1972, Edo Murtić received the Silver Plate from Pope John VI in Rome. He also received the Premio Internazionale di Grafica Do Forni and the Medal of the Mayor of Venice.
The French Ministry of Culture awarded him the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
“The energetic gesture, powerful colorism, and overall vitality of the ‘American Experience’ cycle heralded an aesthetic paradigm that Murtić would develop during the 1960s in monumental abstract compositions in his characteristic idiom. In the 1950s, his style was closer to informal art and tachism, the European variants of abstract expressionism. It was precisely this type of painting, rich in pictorial dynamism, that gave him his first success abroad and established him as an artist of international relevance.” – Branko Franceschi
WORKS IN ART COLLECTIONS
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Tate Modern, London, UK
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Museums of the Vatican, the Vatican City, Rome
Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa
National Museum, Prague
New National Gallery, Berlin
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Modern Gallery, Rijeka
Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
CAMeC – Modern and Contemporary Art Center of Spezia, La Spezia
Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Art Gallery, Dubrovnik
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
David Rockefeller Collection, New York
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACES | A SELECTION
Ceramic mural, Yugoslav exhibition pavilion at Expo 1958, Grand Palais, Brussels
Set design for the opera The Nightingale by Igor Stravinski(director Vlado Habunek), 1958, Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
Execution project for a monument to fallen freedom fighters, Villefranche – de – Rouergue (with sculptor Stevan Luketic), 1966
Tapestry, Libertas Hotel, 1969, Dubrovnik
Tapestry, Zagreb Bank in Vlaska Street, 1971, Zagreb
Four Seasons Hotel, 1972, Houston
Set design for the ballet Debussy Sonata by Igor Stravinsky, Croatian National Theatre, 1975, Zagreb
Monumental mosaic for the apse of St. Peter and Paul Church, 1988, Mostar
Large format painting, VIP office of Zagreb Bank in Kaptol Centre, 2001, Zagreb