DE SARTHE is pleased to announce Jack Tworkov 1900-1982: Pioneer of Abstract Expressionism – A Survey, an exhibition of key works by the influential American painter from 1951 to 1982, organized with the support of the Estate of Jack Tworkov, Van Doren Waxter, and major US and Asian collectors. Marking this historically significant artist’s first major retrospective in Asia, the exhibition follows the evolution of his practice, characterized by the artist’s disposition toward creative fluidity and shifting identities, with a focus on the years in which he played a pioneering role in the Abstract Expressionist movement alongside peers including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. On view from March 21st to May 9th, the exhibition offers a journey through history made via the eyes and hands of its maker.Born in 1900 in Biała Podlaska, Russia (now Poland), Tworkov immigrated with his family to the United States in 1913. Tworkov’s oeuvre saw various transitions under the artist’s steady resolute and unique sensibility. Rooted in his diasporic upbringing, his every evolving work spanned five-decades from the early 1920s to the early 1980s and was positioned at the forefront of historic movements in American art, notably Abstract Expressionism. The late 1940s marked an important turning point in the artist’s career, as he returned to the studio after supporting the US war effort in World War II as a tool designer. The art scene in New York to which he returned had been renewed after the disruption of war. American artists broke from European influences establishing a complete creative independence emphasizing spontaneity, emotion, and universal themes. Tworkov was a leading member of this group, which has been known as the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Tworkov was receptive to a wide range of influences from the works of French Impressionist Paul Cézanne to the Fauves, to Homer’s Odyssey (800 B.C.E.), and much later, his own mathematical interests, Tworkov’s liberal and inquisitive visual language enriched his gestural approach to painting which would define the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.