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Jules Olitski, “Pleasure Whirl: Black,” 2000, acrylic on canvas, 24 by 30 inches.

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JULES OLITSKI ON VIEW AT KNOEDLER & COMPANY w/1 cut

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NEW YORK CITY — “Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings, A Celebration” is on view through January 5 at Knoedler Gallery.

Otlitski’s vibrant late works are subject of this exhibition, representing the last series in a 60-year career. This will be the first Olitski exhibition organized since his passing, at the age of 84, in February.

The Skowhegan School awarded Olitski its medal for painting posthumously in 2007. Currently, his work is included in two New York Museum exhibitions: at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art”; and at The National Academy Museum, “The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy.” The National Academy specially honored Olitski by dedicating the catalog to him.

Olitski’s work will be featured in two museum exhibitions: “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975,” at The Denver Art Museum (traveling to the Smithsonian American Art Museum); and The Jewish Museum, New York, is currently organizing an historical exhibition, “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976,” which will include approximately 50 key works by some 30 celebrated artists. (The exhibition will open at the Jewish Museum in May 2008, and then travel to the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.)

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.

The gallery is at 19 East 70th Street. For information, www.knoedlergallery.com or 212-794-0550.