Donald Judd - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • “I like the color and I like the quality of cadmium red light. And then, also, I thought for a color it had the right value for a three-dimensional object. If you paint something black or any dark color, you can’t tell what its edges are like. If you paint it white, it seems small and purist. And the red, other than a gray of that value, seems to be the only color that really makes an object sharp and defines its contours and angles.”
    —Donald Judd

    The reverse of the present work.

     

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    • Provenance

      Roy C. Judd, Excelsior Springs, Missouri (before 1975)
      Flavin Starbuck Judd, Marfa (thence by descent from the above)
      Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York (before 2006)
      Private Collection
      Christie's, New York, November 16, 2006, lot 473
      Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
      Private Collection
      PaceWildenstein, London
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Cologne, Galerie Thomas Zander, Lewis Baltz / Donald Judd, September 4–November 7, 2010
      New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Donald Judd: Cadmium Red, February 3–March 31, 2012, no. 12, n.p. (illustrated)
      MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965–2015, October 16, 2015–March 13, 2016, pp. 161, 188 (illustrated, p. 161)
      Gagosian, New York, Donald Judd, May 13–July 14, 2023

    • Literature

      Brydon Smith, Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974, Ottawa, 1975, no. 349, p. 279

    • Artist Biography

      Donald Judd

      American • 1928 - 1994

      Donald Judd came to critical acclaim in the 1960s with his simple, yet revolutionary, three-dimensional floor and wall objects made from new industrial materials, such as anodized aluminum, plywood and Plexiglas, which had no precedent in the visual arts. His oeuvre is characterized by the central constitutive elements of color, material and space. Rejecting the illusionism of painting and seeking an aesthetic freed from metaphorical associations, Judd sought to explore the relationship between art object, viewer and surrounding space with his so-called "specific objects." From the outset of his three-decade-long career, Judd delegated the fabrication to specialized technicians. Though associated with the minimalist movement, Judd did not wish to confine his practice to this categorization.

       

      Inspired by architecture, the artist also designed and produced his own furniture, predominantly in wood, and eventually hired a diverse team of carpenters late in his career.

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Property from a Private Collection, New York

154

Untitled

stamped "DON JUDD 7 – 68 10 – R" on the reverse; signed, inscribed and dated "Don Judd 7/68 - #10-R" on the reverse
light cadmium red oil on wood
25 x 16 1/8 in. (63.5 x 41 cm)
Painted in 1968.

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024