Yaacov Agam

Sam Dubiner, Israel
Sale: Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, April 4, 1994, lot 145
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Agam, n.d, no. 29

Several scattered areas of white fluoresce when viewed under ultra violet light, maybe due to retouching. Two or threes speck of paint loss on the ridges. Overall this work is in very good condition. This work has been recently cleaned.
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One can fully appreciate the beauty of Agam's work from this period in Serge Lemoine discussion of a similar painting: "With him [Agam] there is nothing of the 'concrete' artists' lucid coldness, but there is, on the contrary, the fancy that is given free rein and that is called poetry. And how can one resist those metamorphoses of composition when one sees, in Melody (1957), a delightful game set up between the warm and cold colors which bounce from one to the other according to how the viewer takes a position, to the left or the right?... Agam's art seem to be, under the circumstances, that of a fount of inventiveness, an ongoing fiesta, of a renewed amazement before the forms of life." (Serge Lemoine, "Agam's Movement" in Homage to Yaacov Agam, exhibition catalogue, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1980, p. 88).