Pierre Clerk Untitled, circa 1970 Silkscreen on plastic 8 x 8 inches 15 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches; frame Pristine Condition Unsigned as published Floated in a brown wood frame with archival materials Ready to hang and enjoy.
Pierre Clerk's abstract, geometrical works are held in many museums and galleries in the United States and Canada, such as: Museum of ModernArt; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery ofCanada, Ottawa; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Glasgow Art Museum, Scotland; New Mexico University, Albuquerque; QueensCollege, New York; and State University of New York, Purchase. Several of Clerk's paintings, serigraphs, and tapestries are in the collection of thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey and have been exhibited at the international arrivals building at John F. Kennedy International Airport andthe World Trade Center. In addition, a collection of his papers (covering the years 1956 through 1982) are in the Smithsonian: Archives of AmericanArt, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Clerk first came to national attention in the U.S. in the spring of 1956, when he was chosen as one of three artists to be featured in the Museum ofModern Art's 9th New Talent Exhibition. The New York Times described the show as "one of the best in this series" and went on to say: "Clerk'sboldly colored and decorative non-objective oils are in the general tradition of Matisse and are laid out in deliberate patterns like those in an orientalrug, handsome and clear in their planning."
Since the mid-1950s, his work has been included in many group and solo shows. In 2010, the gallery Cortex Athletico in Bordeaux, France, mounteda large show of paintings and smaller sculptures. Called 70/10, the show presented a dialogue between recent works and those of the 1970s. Speaking of his own work, Clerk cites Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Neoplasticism, Brâncuși, and the cubism of Picasso as major influences.
