Lot 133
  • 133

Jules Olitski

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Jules Olitski
  • Prince Patutsky Triumph Over Kaiser Hymie
  • signed and dated 1964 on the reverse
  • acrylic on canvas

  • 76 3/4 by 60 3/8 in. 194.8 by 153.4 cm.

Provenance

Kasmin Gallery, Ltd., London
Alistair McAlpine Esq., London
Waddington Galleries, London
Private Collection, London
Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 1983, lot 416
J.F. Gemunder, Kentucky
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Lawrence, 1964

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The surface is clean and fresh. There is evidence of light wear and handling at the edges. There are few inconsistencies in the shape of the top stretcher bar which present as protrusions of the canvas. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"It is Olitski who has developed and revised Jackson Pollock's central innovation, the allover picture, in order to make it serve color. In so doing he has drawn radical and far-reaching conclusions about the nature of the abstract picture - conclusions that have taken on an inescapable authority." - Kenworth Moffett (Exh. Cat., Boston, Museum of Fine Arts [and travelling], Jules Olitski, 1973, p. 7)