Kenneth Noland Shift 1967 Acrylic on canvas. 197.5 x 500.4 cm. (77 3/4 x 197 in). Signed, titled and dated 'Kenneth Noland Shift 1967' on the reverse.
Provenance Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York; David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto; Parker Street 407, Boston; Collection Roger Vanthournout, Belgium Catalogue Essay Kenneth Noland's groundbreaking explorations of form, medium and scale have influenced artists internationally since the 1960s. A key artist among a generation of painters who reacted against the highly personal and ‘painterly' approach of the then dominant form of Abstract Expressionism, Noland's work typifies the so-called‘post painterly abstraction' of the 1960s: a reduced formal vocabulary of simple, often geometric compositions executed in a characteristically detached manner. Noland has always worked in series, creating paintings which explore regular schematic compositions or motifs in different combinations of colour...Beginning in 1966, Noland made a series of paintings composed entirely from horizontal stripes of pure colour.The ‘stripe paintings', like his earlier works, employ simple form as a device to provide ready-made structures for his paintings and to concentrate the effect of colour, his primary concern.[The present lot is a prime example in the artist's painterly repetoire.] As colour becomes the subject for Noland, scale becomes fundamentally important.The paintings envelop the viewer to extend beyond their field of vision,and remain poised between pure abstraction, landscape painting and a representation of movement. (C. Grunenberg & S. Groom,Kenneth Noland The Stripe Paintings, London, 2006) Read More
Kenneth Noland Shift 1967 Acrylic on canvas. 197.5 x 500.4 cm. (77 3/4 x 197 in). Signed, titled and dated 'Kenneth Noland Shift 1967' on the reverse.
Provenance Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York; David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto; Parker Street 407, Boston; Collection Roger Vanthournout, Belgium Catalogue Essay Kenneth Noland's groundbreaking explorations of form, medium and scale have influenced artists internationally since the 1960s. A key artist among a generation of painters who reacted against the highly personal and ‘painterly' approach of the then dominant form of Abstract Expressionism, Noland's work typifies the so-called‘post painterly abstraction' of the 1960s: a reduced formal vocabulary of simple, often geometric compositions executed in a characteristically detached manner. Noland has always worked in series, creating paintings which explore regular schematic compositions or motifs in different combinations of colour...Beginning in 1966, Noland made a series of paintings composed entirely from horizontal stripes of pure colour.The ‘stripe paintings', like his earlier works, employ simple form as a device to provide ready-made structures for his paintings and to concentrate the effect of colour, his primary concern.[The present lot is a prime example in the artist's painterly repetoire.] As colour becomes the subject for Noland, scale becomes fundamentally important.The paintings envelop the viewer to extend beyond their field of vision,and remain poised between pure abstraction, landscape painting and a representation of movement. (C. Grunenberg & S. Groom,Kenneth Noland The Stripe Paintings, London, 2006) Read More
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