In the front gallery Cheim & Read presents Marvin Israel’s Black Paintings.

A highly respected and influential art director, a designer and teacher, collaborator with, and guru to Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus, Marvin Israel was first and foremost a painter. His one-man exhibition at Galerie Arnaud, Paris, 1952, preceded his exploits in the New York magazine world, and painting continued to be the creative bedrock for all his other activities.