Raoul De Keyser - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Friday, March 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    André Simoens Gallery, Knokke; Private collection, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    Accessible yet wholly ambiguous, De Keyser’s paintings are not the casually imperfect abstractions they are often mistaken for. In fact, the term abstract is, in De Keyser’s case, a misnomer, as the paintings are as much the result of an intuitively additive process as they are a “paring down” of forms and ideas. They are not entirely without recognizable subject matter, nor are they essentialized versions of real-world objects or things – instead, each painting is an independent experiment; a direct result of De Keyser’s reluctance to superficially align himself with any one painting methodology.
     
    (W. White, “Iconoclast,” Raoul De Keyser: Recent Work, 2006, David Zwirner, New York)

23

Untitled

1971-1972
Oil on canvas.
27 3/8 x 27 3/8 in. (69.5 x 69.5 cm).
Signed and dated "Raoul de Keyser 1971-72" on the reverse.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $50,000

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 March 2011
New York