Lot 17
  • 17

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Richard Anuszkiewicz
  • Intersecting Red Rectangle
  • signed and dated 1995 on the underside of the base
  • painted aluminum
  • Overall: 31 1/2 by 24 by 6 in. 80 by 61 by 15.2 cm.

Provenance

Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Bottrop, Germany, Josef Albers Museum; Oldenburg, Germany, Landesmuseum Oldenburg im Augusteum; Chemnitz, Germany, Stadtisohe Kunstsammlung; Zurich, Haus fur Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst; Ludwigshafen, Germany, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Richard Anuszkiewicz - Paintings and Painted Constructions: A Retrospective Survey 1954-1994, February 1997 – September 1998, p. 107, illustrated in color
Naples, Florida, Harmon-Meek Gallery, Linear Sculpture: Richard Anuszkiewicz, February - March 2002, illustrated in color on the cover

Literature

Barry Schwabsky, "Lines of Luminosity," Art in America, Vol. 89, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 102-7, 143
Sarah FK Coble, “Optimal View: An Opportunity,” Naples Illustrated, February 2002, p. 64, illustrated in color
David Madden and Nicholas Spike, Anuszkiewicz: Paintings & Sculptures 1945 - 2001: Catalogue Raisonné, Florence, 2010, p. 218, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Upon close inspection there are a few very minor losses to the pigment. There is some faint surface soiling noted on the base. The sculptural composition is slightly loose on the base.
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