Yellow Painting (Peinture jaune)

"It's a pulsating painting, the kind that keeps you alive." (Elora Weill-Engerer, art historian)

Shirley Goldfarb moved to Paris in 1954, where she associated with painters such as Sam Francis, David Hockney, Joan Mitchell and Jean Paul Riopelle. She embraced the abstract trends of informal art and tachism. ln the Orangerie Museum she was fascinated by the Nymphéas [Water Lilies], painter Claude Monet's Impressionist masterpiece. For Yellow Painting, she covered a monumental canvas with a multitude of stains to create an optical vibration evoking dazzling sunshine. ln the following years, from 1966 to 1970, Goldfarb's painting became progressively monochrome.