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Artist or Maker: Robert Mangold (B. 1937)
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Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Lee Sherman, Roosevelt, New Jersey
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980
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Exhibited: New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Mangold, November 1971-January 1972, p. 13, no. 13 (illustrated).
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Literature: E. de Wilde, Robert Mangold, Amsterdam, 1982, n.p., no. 93 (illustrated in color).
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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
"During the late 1960s, Mangold similarly attempted to minimize whatever 'gesture' or expression might be associated with color in itself, but he neither resorted to achromatic effect nor gave up actual painting. Recognizing how suggestive virtually any hue could be, he selected his palette from colors so routinely linked to mundane material contexts that they would bear no extended connotation: "I was attracted to generic or 'industrial' colors; paper bag brown, file cabinet grey, industrial green, that kind of thing. I didn't want color that looked like Matisse or Abstract Expressionism." This was color without 'meaning', without conceivable artistic reference, lacking even the purity or formal extreme that Ryman's painting connoted, and avoiding the anti-painting aesthetic of the Minimalist 'object'. In Mangold's hands, color and its shaped support acquired neither illusion nor allusion, nor any general theory that could explain that color and shape. He had his own way of letting materials and forms remain mere matter - as matter-of-fact as the edge of a building or the distant horizon, no explanation necessary.
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Please note that the correct medium for the work is acrylic on masonite
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