Provenance
Private Collection, Caracas
Private Collection of Oswaldo Subero, Caracas
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Carlos Cruz-Diez, to be published by the Cruz-Diez Art Foundation.
Catalogue Essay
During the 1950s, Carlos Cruz-Diez left Venezuela to travel extensively throughout Europe, where he explored the possibilities of Constructivism while continuing to develop his interest in chromatic structures and color theory. Physichromie No. 939 (1977) is part of his most important series, which he began in 1959 and has continued to investigate for decades. The exact medium of these works has developed over time but has always consisted of alternating colored strips that trap light, producing a chromatic effect that constantly changes as the viewer moves around the piece. In this way, the viewer becomes a participant in the artwork, not merely a spectator. The innovative aspects of the these works immediately caught the attention of the international milieu, and very early in his career Cruz-Diez was included in two seminal exhibitions in Europe and the United States: Movement 2 at the famous Galerie Denise René in Paris in 1964 and The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965. Cruz-Diez was also the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2011, titled Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time.
Artist Biography
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Venezuelan • 1923 - 2019
Carlos Cruz-Diez moved from his native Caracas to Paris in 1960. He is a major protagonist in the field of kinetic and Op Art, a movement based on "an awareness of the instability of reality."
Inspired by such artists as Georges Seurat and Josef Albers, his work focuses on the kinetic energy of color and its existence as an autonomous and evolving reality, independent from form or structure. Much of his work, in particular his Physichromie series, is created by plotting lines of contrasting color alongside each other, creating an illusion of movement as the viewer's position relative to the artwork shifts.

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Carlos Cruz-Diez

Physichromie No. 939

signed, titled and dated "PHYSICHROMIE NO. 939 - CRUZ-DIEZ - Sept./ 1977" on a label affixed to the back
silkscreen and plastic elements on metal support with aluminum frame
19 5/8 x 29 1/2 in. (50 x 75 cm)
Executed in 1977.

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$100,000 - 150,000

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New York Auction 24 May 2017

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Untitled
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Metaesquema
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Carlos Cruz-Diez
Physichromie No. 939
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Composición
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Banderinhas com mastro
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Lygia Pape
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Jackie (from the series Pictures of Diamonds)
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Jesús Rafael Soto
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Carlos Garaicoa
Aquí estuvieron los cubanos (I and II)
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Tomás Saraceno
View of Uyuni from Lacaille 9352
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Seahorse Circle
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Red with Them
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Francis Alÿs
Untitled (Study for Linchados / Lynching)
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Manuel Mendive
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Julio Galán
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Benjamín Cañas
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Federico Herrero
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Ernesto Neto
Colonia
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Mariana Palma
Untitled
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Vik Muniz
The Descent from the Cross, after Caravaggio (from the series 'Pictures of Chocolate')
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Vik Muniz
Obama (from the series 'Pictures of Magazine 2')
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Luis Felipe Ortega
Mirando a través de algo que parece uno mismo
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Carlos Arias Vicuña
Distancia (Distance)
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Dr. Lakra
Untitled (Retro con músculos)
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José Bedia
El precio
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Alfredo Otero
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Samy Benmayor
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Eugenio Espinoza
Untitled
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Alfredo Jaar
Reflexions
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José Antonio Hernández Diez
MP3 vol.3
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Gabriel Orozco
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Gabriel Orozco
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Los Carpinteros
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Carlos Garaicoa
Untitled (from the series 'La ciudad vista desde la mesa casa')
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Nicola Costantino
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Darío Escobar
Ecce Homo
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Catalogue Essay

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Carlos Cruz-Diez

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