Ernest Trova
Falling man
In Pace/Columbus - Ohio - 1971
Color lithograph
dimensions : 79,0 x 66,0 ( h x w )
dimensions image : 61.5 x 62.0 c, ( h x w )
not signed or numbered
on heavy paper
without frame
in good condition
without frame
Ernest Trova (Clayton, Feb. 19, 1927 - Richmond Heights, March 8, 2009) was an American, surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor.
Trova was self-taught and never attended art school. The board chairman, Morton D. May (a collector and amateur artist) bought one of Trova's paintings, which he later donated to the Museum of Modern Art.
Trova exhibited his first works at the Pace Gallery in St. Louis in 1963. Some of his early works had already been purchased by the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London and by the St. Louis Art Museum in St. Louis.
In 1964, Trova became his most famous work, The Falling Man, of which he made several versions and whose image was reused in screen prints, on watches and kaleidoscopes. The serial nature of his work, as with Andy Warhol, was done by critics as too commercial and kitschy.