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Blinky Palermo at the Hirshhorn Museum Review

The little-known German painter adopted the name of a gangster and pushed abstraction to the brink before his early death at the age of 33. Blake Gopnik explores a new retrospective.

Blake Gopnik

Published Mar. 17 2011 2:08PM EDT

articles/2011/03/17/blinky-palermo-at-the-hirshhorn-museum-review/gopnik-palermo_167044_xfumjc — Blinky Palermo, Coney Island II, 1975. Acrylic paint on aluminum. Four parts, each: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 21 cm); overall: 10 1/2 x 57 7/8 in. (26.7 x 147 cm). Collection Ströher, Darmstadt. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kun

Blake Gopnik

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