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Dimensions: 46 1/16 by 61 13/16 in.

117 by 157 cm.

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Provenance: Ned. L. Pines, New York (acquired from the artist)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 14, 1990 lot 322
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

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Exhibited: New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Homage to Yaacov Agam, 1980, page 49, illustrated in color in the catalogue

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Notes: Yaacov Agam, the son of a celebrated rabbi of legendary piety, was interested in the spiritual possiblisties of art from the very start of his career. Consistently questioning the nature of the artist-observer relationship, Agam aroused the keen interest of major surrealists of an earlier generation, who were amongst his most keen supporters. Discussing his work, Agam notes: "I have tried to create painting that exists not only in space, but also in time, where it develops and generates an illimited number of plastic situations, flowing out of each other, disappearing one after the other, in a continual renewal" (Yaacov Agam quoted in Haim Gamzu "Time and Space in the Work of Yaacov Agam" in Homage to Yaacov Agam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1980, page 113).