

Property from a Distinguished Midwestern Collection
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Peter Halley
World of Mire
- Estimate
- $250,000 - 350,000
Lot Details
acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas, in 2 parts
signed and dated "Peter Halley Peter Halley 1991" on the reverse
84 3/8 x 81 1/2 in. (214.3 x 207 cm.)
Executed in 1991.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
“I started using Day-Glo... to make the cells glow. I was trying to emphasize technologically derived materials and I also liked Day-Glo’s connection to Pop and Psychedelia, in a nostalgic sense. The quality of the glow that it produced seemed very artificial, unnatural and eerie to me. In a quite traditional way, I have always been interested in light in painting." Peter Halley
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