James Brown
American, 1951 - 2020
In the following decade, Brown and Alexandra began working between New York; Mérida, Mexico; and Paris. His works are held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, among other institutions.
Throughout his lifetime, Brown drew inspiration from early 20th-century artistic and literary works; many of his paintings allude to the writings of English modernist poet D. H. Lawrence. One of his most most well-known series, began in the late 1990s, was inspired by Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets (1914–16). At the time of his death, Brown’s series included more than 80 celestially themed abstract paintings, which featured in a group show at Galerie Karsten Greve’s Paris location.
Brown gained recognition in New York through his semi-figurative paintings, which were influenced by the style of contemporary Jean-Michel Basquiat, alongside whom Brown sometimes exhibited his work.
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American, born Germany, 1885 - 1947
American, 1903 - 1976