THE BIG PICTURE


June 9, 2006

When artist Eugene James Martin died in 2005, his wife, Suzanne Fredericq, decided that something had to be done. Martin was an accomplished painter, with his own brand of abstraction drawing on African American themes, an oeuvre spanning some five decades and works in important collections throughout the south -- but he had done little to promote himself during his life. This was what brought her to Artnet’s new Artists’ Works Catalogues.

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