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"Dutch" Still Life with Orchids, Postcard View of Paris, and "Death of Marat"
1983 · Acrylic on canvas
70 × 50 in. (177.8 × 127 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Paul Wonner
1920–2008
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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962
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Paul Wonner was an American painter whose career spanned from postwar abstraction to figurative work rooted in domestic interiors and still life. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, he developed a distinctive approach to composition that flattened spatial depth while maintaining representational clarity. His paintings often depicted intimate domestic spaces, flowers, and objects arranged with careful attention to color relationships and formal arrangement. Based in California for much of his career, Wonner's work bridged modernist abstraction and observational painting.
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