Robert Baribeau

Acquired directly from the artist

New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Robert Baribeau & Diana Moore, March - April 1995

This work is in very good condition overall. There are scattered areas of fine and stable craquelure particularly in the heavily impastoed areas. The collaged elements exhibit evidence of slight undulation and lifting. There are scattered spot accretions which fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light. Under further ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"Robert Baribeau, a disciple of the New York School's Abstract Expressionism, adds his own contemporary spin to that tradition. By allowing the natural impulse of his materials to spot, drip and smudge, Baribeau paints raw, tactile surfaces that are a feast of juicy strokes, stripes, polka dots, and other collaged textures and patterns. There is a dynamic tension in Baribeau's work between a surface of powerful exuberance and a sense of anomie. The splashed, scratched and scored surface is further enlivened by the collaged squares of polka-dot fabric, as well as by densely layered sheets of paper whose glued-down edges create seams that serve as a rough grid beneath the skin of the pigment, providing a casual armature to anchor the freely floating form."

- Allan Stone