THEODOROS STAMOS | Low Sun-Yellow Bar

Art for Industry, New York
Corporate Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1970

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of wear and handling to the extreme edges, including light rubbing of the pigment a including surface soiling at the extreme edges. Under close inspection, there are networks of very fine and stable hairline craquelure visible across the top third of the canvas in the white pigment. There is a 3 inch brown vertical drip accretion 6 inches from the right edge and 13 inches from the top. The canvas is Unlined. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"The work of Theodoros Stamos, subtle and sensuous as it is, reveals an attitude towards nature that is closer to true communion. His ideographs capture the moment of totemic affinity with the rock and the mushroom, the crayfish and the seaweed. He redefines the pastoral experience as one of participation with the inner life of the natural phenomenon. One might say that instead of going into the rock, he comes out of it." Barnett Newman in: Exh. Cat., New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, The Ideographic Picture, 1947, n.p.