Representative work by Hedda Sterne
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Hedda Sterne

1910–2011 · Romanian-born American · Based in New York, USA (d. 2011)

  • University of Bucharest
  • Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Spray Paint
  • Printmaking

Hedda Sterne moved from Surrealist-inflected work in Europe to a wide-ranging American practice that included machine-like abstractions, landscapes, portraits and meditative drawings. She was the only woman in the famous 1951 'Irascibles' photograph.

Painting; drawing

Gallery Representation

Major Works

  • New York, N.Y. No. 1
  • Machine 5
  • Roads No. 1
  • Vertical-Horizontals
  • Third Avenue El
  • New York VIII
  • Diary drawings
  • Horizon series
  • Metaphores and Metamorphoses
  • Road No. 7

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