James Bishop, “Middle” (1972), oil on canvas, 74 1/4 x 74 1/4 inches (© Paul Rodgers/9w Gallery, NY) Last summer, at a press preview before the opening of his exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, ...

For 54 years he has been a painter, and for all but the past five of them. Bram van Velde has been penniless and unknown, a man so much alone that he has almost lost the gift of speech. Seemingly too ...

Bram van Velde, “Untitled, Tardais” (1959), oil on canvas, 51 x 76-3/4 inches, private collection, Belgium (via members.chello.nl) The postwar art scene in Paris was dominated on one side by a ...