Lot 112 : RICHARD POUSETTE-DART (1916-1992)
Auction Location: United States of America - 2002
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Description:
Oriental Lights signed and titled 'Pousette-Dart Oriental Lights' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas with hand painted wood stripping 201/2 x 241/2 in. (52.1 x 62.2 cm.) Painted circa 1945 PROVENANCE Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. Willard Gallery, New York. Compass Rose, Chicago. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989. EXHIBITION Andover, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, 1945. NOTES "Art for me is the heavens forever opening up, like asymmetrical, unpredictable, spontaneous Kaleidoscopes. It is magic, it is Joy, it is gardens of surprise and miracle. It is energy, impulse. It is question and answer. It is transcendental reason. It is total in spirit" (Richard Pousette-Dart as quoted in New York School The First Generation, Greenwich, 1970, p. 125).
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