Artist Pubs

Irving Burnell Petlin

Irving Burnell Petlin (1934 - 2018) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, California / France.  Irving Petlin is known for Abstract inhumanity, war-themed image painting, pastel specialty.

Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83, The New York Times, Obituary by Richard Sandomir, Sept. 7, 2018
 
Irving Petlin, whose idiosyncratic paintings and pastels reflected a moral commitment to document inhumanity — during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East and on the streets of Paris and Los Angeles, among other examples — died on Sept. 1 at his home on Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. He was 83.

His wife, Sarah, said the cause was liver cancer. He lived most of the year in Paris and spent his summers on Martha’s Vineyard.

Mr. Petlin strove to preserve history in a style that was neither realistic nor abstract. Rather than depict brutal events graphically, he re-imagined them with subtlety and surrealism.

“He was totally un-classifiable,” John Yau, a poet and critic, who has written about and interviewed Mr. Petlin, said in a telephone interview. “He’s kind of a modern-day symbolist.”

He added, “He reinvented pastel   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7778 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 107 auction lots for Irving Burnell Petlin (of which 74 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Irving Burnell Petlin as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Irving Burnell Petlin in 0 of its research Essays. Irving Burnell Petlin has 5 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Irving Burnell Petlin available:    Seymour Rosofsky,  Gladys Nilsson,  Leon Golub,  Roger Brown,  Richard Howard Hunt,  Mark Kostabi,  Ernest Tino Trova,  Antonin Mercie,  Enrico Donati,  Alan Davie,  Leon Polk Smith,  Pjeroo Roobjee,  Lester Frederick Johnson,  Eugène Leroy,  Cleve (Ginsburg) Gray,  Artist Unknown,  Alfred (lLippitz) Leslie,  Mel Bochner,  Sandro Chia,  James Brooks,  William Baziotes,  Jack Tworkov,  Harry Bertoia,  Beverly (Stoll) Pepper