Lot 250
  • 250

Theodoros Stamos

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Theodoros Stamos
  • Low Sun
  • signed

  • oil on canvas
  • 65 by 22 in. 165.1 by 55.9 cm.
  • Executed in 1961.

Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, May 22, 1975, Lot 321
Louise K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in October 1994

Literature

Ralph Pomeroy, Stamos, New York, 1970, p. 154, illustrated

Catalogue Note

"At the moment, I am concerned with an image that will expand and excite the eye, even seduce it. I want the painting to be sensuous, living on its own, devoid of biography...
Instead through nature, this is my discovery: happiness, even joy, at finding something which I want to look at… So, it is the eye and the paint - paint on canvas - with which I am involved, allowing the paint to have a chance and achieving a harmony between the two" (Theodoros Stamos, statement in It Is, Winter - Spring 1959)