Abstract Expressionists were back on the market for the first time in two years, with mixed results.
He became a leading abstract expressionist on the west coast.
They would come to be known as the Abstract Expressionists.
"I wasn't an abstract expressionist or a pop artist," he once said in an interview.
"Was Soutine at this time what might be called an abstract expressionist?"
I knew a lot of painters, abstract expressionists, who used to paint to jazz music.
"I didn't want to do what they did," he says of the Abstract Expressionists.
Some of his earlier Abstract Expressionist works from the 60's are also displayed.
"This is the first time in 18 months we have seen the Abstract Expressionists up for sale."
He has been described as an action painter, an abstract expressionist, and an impressionist.