Lot 613: J. S. Cartier (American, b.1932) Abstract

J. S. Cartier (American, b.1932) Abstract landscape, 1960 signed and dated (lower right) oils on board 24.5cm x 21cm. Provenance: with The Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, 1960, No. 42. J. S. Cartier studied at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliques in Paris in 1950, before emigrating to America. By 1952 he had his first show of abstract art in New York. After a period in the US Army he came to study at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, before returning to New York in 1960. Cartier became heavily influenced by the abstract-expressionist school of Pollock and de Kooning amongst others, and also became a noted photographer, particularly recording the destruction of lower Manhattan in the 1960s.