Hans Hofmann: Paintings, which runs at the Imago Galleries in Palm Desert, Calif. from Nov. 26 to Jan 15, 2006, features work from the influential teacher and painter, widely considered a catalyst of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
 
The German-born Hofmann, who became an American citizen in 1941, lived next door for a time to Jackson Pollock in the early '40s.
 
Among Hofmann's numerous exhibitions during his lifetime, highlights are a retrospective at the Whitney in 1957 and representing the United States at the XXX Venice Biennale, along with Philip Guston, Franz Kline and Theodore Roszak.
 
Since his death in 1966, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fort Worth Art Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Phillips Collection are just some of the major institutions to have mounted exhibitions of his work.
 
Among Hofmann's more famous students are Louisa Matthiasdottir and Robert De Niro Sr.