Ernest Trova - Falling man - At Pace/Columbus - Ohio- 1971 - Sold

Ernest Trova Fall man At Pace/Columbus - Ohio - 1971 Color lithograph dimensions: 79.0 x 66.0 ( hxw ) image dimensions: 61.5 x 62.0 c, ( hxw ) not signed or numbered on heavy paper without frame in good condition without frame Ernest Trova (February 19, 1927 – March 8, 2009) was an American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor. Trova was self-taught and never had any art education. The chairman of the board, Morton D. May (a collector and amateur artist) purchased one of Trova's paintings, which he later donated to the Museum of Modern Art. Trova exhibited his first works in 1963 at the Pace Gallery in St. Louis. Some of his early works have already been purchased by the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London and the St. Louis Art Museum in St. Louis. In 1964, Trova created his most famous work, The Falling Man, of which he made several versions and reused the image in serigraphs, watches and kaleidoscopes. The serial nature of his work, as with Andy Warhol, was dismissed by critics as too commercial and kitschy.