Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992)

Spiral

Details

Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992)
Spiral
signed 'R. Pousette-Dart' (on the reverse)
ink and gouache on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.6 cm.)
Painted in 1940.

Provenance

Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart, New York
Knoedler & Company, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Boca Raton Museum of Art, The Living Edge: Richard Pousette-Dart Works on Paper, August 2001-June 2002, pp. 96 and 198, no. 29 (illustrated in color).

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Please note the updated provenance for this lot:

Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart, New York
Knoedler & Company, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Lot Essay

"I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe. Painting is for me a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcendent, yet solid and real" (R. Pousette-Dart quote in Richard Pousette-Dart, exh. cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2007, p. 21).

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