James Bishop, Inimitable Painter of Understated Abstractions, Has Died at 93

James Bishop, a painter whose quietly hued works developed a cult following in New York and Paris, has died at 93. According to Le Monde, Bishop died in Dreux, a French town not far from Blévy, where he was based, on February 16.
Bishop’s abstractions are often composed of large expanses of just a few colors. Because he was active during the postwar era, his work has drawn comparisons to various movements, such as Abstract Expressionism and Supports/Surfaces, a French group that rel