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Donald Judd Untitled (89-30) 1989 Polychrome pulver on aluminum. 29.5 x 59.9 x 30.5 cm (11 3/5 x 23 3/5 x 12 in). Incised “Donald Judd 89-30 lascaux materials ltd. brooklyn. n.y.” on the reverse.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist Catalogue Essay One of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. He broke new ground in his exploration of volume, interval, space and colour by rejecting the tradition of artistic expression and craftsmanship, using industrial materials such as Plexiglas, sheet metal and plywood. From the mid-1960s, he even had his works fabricated by external manufacturers. By encouraging concentration on the volume and presence of the structure and the space around it, Judd's work draws particular attention to the relationship between the object, the viewer, and its environment. This relationship became a central focus of Judd's career, and he devoted much of his later life to the sympathetic installation of his own work. Judd's engagement with philosophy, architecture, design and politics informed his own work, and influenced succeeding generations of artists and designers. His pared-down forms and sensuous use of industrial materials remain a feature of much contemporary art, architecture and design. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he produced radical work that eschewed the classical European ideals of representational sculpture. Judd believed that art should not represent anything, that it should unequivocally stand on its own and simply exist. The present lot is one of the most interesting from the critically acclaimed Swiss Box series. Begun in 1983, the series allowed Judd a new-found exuberance as a colourist. With such works as Untitled (89-30), Judd started incorporating the brilliant hues of industrial paints in his sculptures treating color formally as an object. Untitled (89-30) is a classic intimate Judd volumetric wall piece. As the viewer moves across the work, subtle elements of the work begin to emerge. Judd creates a void where space, light and object play and intertwine to create an internal pool of colours. Read More Artist Bio Donald Judd American • 1928 - 1994 Donald Judd was an American artist known for large-scale minimalistic sculptures, which he personally referred to as "specific objects." Though associated with Minimalism, Judd did not wish to be confined to this categorization and felt that his work was more complex. He utilized industrial materials and demonstrated the way in which they interacted with their surroundings, an effect he felt was more powerful than flat oil on canvas. Judd was more interested in the spacing of his pieces and the way viewers would interpret them than the importance of the pieces themselves. Inspired by architecture, the artist designed and produced his own furniture, predominantly in wood, and eventually hired a diverse team of carpenters late in his career. View More Works