Shirley GOLDFARB
1925–1980, USA

Shirley Goldfarb was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1925 to Charles and Lena Goldfarb.
In 1954 Shirley, who had been studying art in New York since 1950, met and married artist Gregory Masurovsky, with whom she later bore a son, Marc. The couple moved to Paris in 1954, joining a bohemian expatriate community there that included Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Norman Bluhm, Shirley Jaffee, and Paul Jenkins. At her studio, she produced large-scale, abstract canvases using interesting brush/knife techniques and a limited color palette.Shirley lived a full and robust life in her adopted home, spending much time in its brasseries and left bank cafés, where she sat for many hours daily writing a personal journal, which was posthumously translated into French and published as Shirley Goldfarb, Carnets Montparnasse: 1971-1980 (Paris: Quai Voltaire, 1994). It was later adapted to become a popular stage play.
Her abstract impressionistic paintings are well known in France, but her first solo showing in the U.S. came long after her death, in 1997, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Collections of her works are shown regularly at the Zabriskie Galleries in Paris and New York. Other works of hers exist in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as at The Georges Pompidou Center and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
In the late 1970s, Shirley fought cancer unsuccessfully, although Andy Warhol ironically recorded in his diary in 1978 that "Shirley Goldfarb was there, and she's just beat her cancer…" Shirley finally succumbed to cancer two years later, in 1980.

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