Kenneth Noland - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist; Private Collection

  • Catalogue Essay


    Noland’s name stands for a particular kind of American painting –one based on the potency of color. His pictures are among the most original, elegant and unabashedly beautiful of our time. And they are among the most abstract, admired as much because they test the limits of what can be eliminated (without compromising reason or expression) as for their seductive hues. In Noland’s hands, the orchestration and placement of colors have become, almost for the first time in the history of Western art, independently expressive elements, removed from even the most tenuous connection with any preexisting image. The powerful associative qualities of color harmonies, like evocative sounds or scents, are made the carriers of profound emotions, but they are completely detached from any specific reference, from anecdote or symbol.
    K. Wilkin, Kenneth Noland, New York, 1990, p. 7

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION

128

Untitled

1964

Acrylic on canvas.

69 1/4 x 69 1/4 in. (176 x 176 cm).

Signed and dated "Kenneth Noland 1964' on the reverse.
 

Estimate
$300,000 - 400,000 

Sold for $542,500

Contemporary Art Part I

13 May 2010
New York