Contemporary Art Day Auction

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Lot 125
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Ad Reinhardt

Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description

  • Ad Reinhardt
  • Abstract Painting Blue
  • signed, titled and dated 1952 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas, in 4 parts

  • Overall: 48 by 12 in. 121.9 by 30.5 cm.

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, The Museum of of Modern Art; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Ad Reinhardt, May 1991 - January 1992, p. 79, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

"He saw painting as an ordered, pure, and preferably immobile construct in a period when "purity" was despised. In this sense, he was a "thirties painter" in the forties and a "sixties painter" in the fifties, for he soon found that huge size was not necessary for the particular self-contained luminescence he sought." Lucy R. Lippard