Robert Mangold - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Peter Freeman, Inc., New York

  • Catalogue Essay


    Mangold is plainly comfortable with the bare bones materiality of his medium and the mutations to which it lends itself. Likewise he seems at ease with the notion that no realities external to his studio reflection impose their authority upon his choices, and none internal to it carry the weight of unalterable necessity. Art history sets the stage for the decisions he has made, and abstraction’s legacy in particular elaborates and qualifies our understanding of the aspirations and reticences implicit in his oeuvre. Painterly intuition rather than a priori ideas guide his hand. Correspondingly direct, prolongued and repeated experience of mark, form, hue, space, surface, shape and scale is why all the other things that can be said about the larger context for those decisions matters. Insatiable but discriminate looking at the paintings which result from this rigorous empiricism is the basis of out bond with their maker. R. Storr, “Betwixt and Between,” Robert Mangold, London, 2000, p. 78

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION  

126

Red February #3

1963

Oil on canvas.

84 x 62 1/2 in. (213 x 159 cm).


Signed and dated "R. Mangold Feb 1963" on the stretcher.
 

Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000 

Contemporary Art Part I

13 May 2010
New York