"Artist with Abstract Painting" Beauregard Fine Art is presenting "Robert Beauchamp (1923-1995): A Passion For Paint, Select Paintings From the Wellfleet Studio."

This is the third exhibit of Beauchamp's work at the Rumson gallery.

Bold, inventive, eccentric and wildly humorous, Beauchamp was greatly admired by his peers, critics and curators alike.

Beauchamp studied with Hans Hofmann and like most of Hofmann's students, began his painting career as an abstract expressionist. However, for Beauchamp the abstract left out too much and he reintroduced the figure back into his paintings.

Beauchamp is a museum-quality painter who made a major contribution as a figural expressionist. His work has

been in more than 60 solo exhibits and is in major museum collections.

According to the gallery, the impetus for this show was a visit to the artist's home and studio in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass. The owner of Beauregard Fine Art, having spent 30-plus summers in Wellfleet, was delighted to find a treasure trove of paintings in the late artist's home and studio.

The works follow his expressionist portraiture period and fall in the period of the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

The exhibition at Beauregard Fine Art, 109 River Road, will run through March 2. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information, call (732) 450 0994 or visit www.beauregard-fineart.com.